It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead and finished… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
The Nobel Prize has been a disturbance at the beginning of October for some years. It would be gratifying to win, but it would… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was already, I think, at the age of 18, showing signs of being incompetent in the lab. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
That name was a kind of joke, and not a very good one. An author, Leon Lederman, wanted to call it 'that goddamn particle'… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
When my wife and I got married, she thought of me being an easygoing person, and I warned her I wasn't. — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
In 2002, a Scottish journalist, during a dinner meant to be private, absolutely wanted me to react to Stephen Hawking's comments. I said one… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960,… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My first visit to the Large Hadron Collider was in April 2008, before it started up, and CERN had some open days. They were… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
