Portrait of Peter Ware Higgs
Date
1985
Sitter
Peter Ware Higgs (British) , Theoretical physicist
Creator
Unknown, Photographer
Creator - Organisation
Godfrey Argent Studio, Photographer
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Image reference
Material
Dimensions
height (print): 190mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Description
Head and shoulders portrait of Peter Higgs looking directly to viewer. He wears a dark corduroy suit jacket, striped shirt and woollen tie.
Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3. PROFESSOR P. W. HIGGS. F.R.S. 84 SGRS 8362/11 Rec’d -4 MAR 1985.’
Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’ and ‘The Royal Society of London.’
Peter Ware Higgs, British theoretical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1981, along with Thomas Walter and Bannerman Kibble, for their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory. He received the Copley Medal in 2015 for his fundamental contribution to particle physics with his theory explaining the origin of mass in elementary particles, confirmed by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. For which he also received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
Signed by the artist on the front mount and inscribed on the reverse ‘Box 3. PROFESSOR P. W. HIGGS. F.R.S. 84 SGRS 8362/11 Rec’d -4 MAR 1985.’
Stamped ‘COPYRIGHT GODFREY ARGENT STUDIO, 12 HOLLAND ST. LONDON W8 4LT. TEL: 937 0441, 937 4008.’ and ‘The Royal Society of London.’
Peter Ware Higgs, British theoretical physicist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1981, along with Thomas Walter and Bannerman Kibble, for their international contributions about the spontaneous breaking of fundamental symmetries in elementary-particle theory. He received the Copley Medal in 2015 for his fundamental contribution to particle physics with his theory explaining the origin of mass in elementary particles, confirmed by the experiments at the Large Hadron Collider. For which he also received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
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