Talk:Peter Higgs

Birthplace

Where was Higgs born? I have come across Bristol (in Wikipedia) and Newcastle upon Tyne. No other reference work I know has this information. Bandalore 18:49, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Guardian interview, cited, states Newcastle.Vernon White ^{. . . Talk} 14:19, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

That Guardian interview needs to be used to expand the bio section here - David Gerard (talk) 14:18, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

He is definitely from Newcastle. Born there, and moved to Bristol when he was a kid.

I'm only saying this, as I met him last year, and it was discussed.

Cjmooney9 (talk) 14:34, 9 January 2014 (UTC)

Image

Hear is a much nice image of him standing at the LHC: http://www.pro-physik.de/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/prophy/image/higgs.jpg — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.76.93.247 (talk) 16:07, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Religious views

Please add this information. Shall be much appreciated.190.226.220.102 (talk) 00:44, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

-Comentario:

Peter Higgs - Atheist

Peter has been an atheist since 2013: interview conducted by Kenneth Macdonald & BBC Scotland -

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You can confirm that the interview is real, University of Edinburgh confirms that this interview is real

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“17 April 2013 BBC TV Scotland shows the Ken MacDonald documentary 'Peter Higgs: Particle Man' on BBC Scotland. It was repeated later on the BBC News Channel.”

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: The Daily Telegraph - Source Link

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: Historia-biografia.com - Source Link

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: The Guardian newspaper - Source Link [This source is taken from N67 references in English Wikipedia]

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: NNDB: Tracking the entire world - Source Link

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: The Independent - Source Link

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: The Times - Source Link

The statements of higgs are confirmed by: Wikipedia List of atheists in science and technology - Source Link

The interview has been shared by pages such as: Freedom From Religion Foundation -

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The interview has been shared by pages such as: The Scotsman - Source Link

The interview has been shared by pages such as: El Confidencial - Source Link

The interview has been shared by pages such as: RT (TV network) - Source Link

--ॐ Audcsias talk 02:47, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

Early Life in Retirement?

The section "Early Life and Education" contains information on Higgs being promoted to professor and his retirement. Surely this is not the correct section for this information? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.95.203.19 (talk) 01:26, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Peter Higgs/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I do not agree on the last sentence of the article about Peter Higgs: "If the Higgs boson is found at CERN [...] Professor Higgs may be awarded the Nobel Prize" First of all is a purely speculative idea wich is not, in my opinion, appropiate for an encyclopedic work. And second, sadly, is very unlikely that Mr. Higgs will ever be awarded a Nobel Prize. The discovery of Higg's boson, if ever will be done, will likely take many years and several more years will be taken by the bureaucratic process of actually assign the prize. Higgs is now 79 and it is well known that Nobal prizes can only be awarded to living people. So, I propose to remove that sentence. 80.59.217.97 (talk) 14:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 14:59, 3 July 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 02:43, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Nationality

Our guide to nationality for UK people is Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom. this makes it clear that there is no uniform treatment for this thorny subject, we need to be guided by the facts and the sources.

If we take an earlier physicist, Isaac Newton, then the references are clear, he was English. Newton was born in England (before the Union) and lived and worked in England for his entire life.

Moving forward to the Victorian era, it is equally clear that James Clerk Maxwell is referred to as Scottish, having been born of Scottish parents in Scotland, educated mainly in Scotland, he maintained his home at Glenlair in Galloway (where he inherited his father's estate) throughout his life, he also owned property in Edinburgh (his birthplace). Despite two periods of working in England, 1860-1865 and 1871-1879, he always returned to Glenlair during the long summer vacation, and it was there that much of his deep thinking took place.

Higgs was born in Newcastle to an English father and Scottish mother. He first moved to Edinburgh in 1954, and following a period in London from 1956 moved permanently back to Edinburgh in 1960, where he has lived ever since. His mixed parentage, and the fact that the majority of his life has been spent in Scotland, clearly make British a more appropriate description than English. Some additional references which indicate that Higgs should be referred to as British:

Biography from his school in Bristol.

British Government press release.

Royal Society.

CERN

Times of London

David Cameron on Twitter

Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Guardian

Belfast Telegraph

FF-UK (talk) 21:13, 7 October 2016 (UTC)

On Rod stewarts page it says: Sir Roderick David "Rod" Stewart, CBE (born 10 January 1945)[1] is a British rock singer-songwriter. Born and raised in London, he is of Scottish and English ancestry.

so what about changing the opening sentence to something like: Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE (born 29 May 1929) is a British theoretical physicist, born in Newcastle and raised in Bristol, he is of Scottish and English ancestry. Higgs is a emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel Prize laureate for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

Nick876436 (talk) 01:35, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

This is covered perfectly well later in the article and tack it all onto the first sentence makes it unnecessarily convoluted and distracting. "British" nails it well for the lede section. Mutt Lunker (talk) 10:57, 8 October 2016 (UTC)

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