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    Credit: ©The Royal Society/Anne Purkiss
    Image number: RS.9653

    Professor Peter Higgs

    Date
    2012
    Sitter
    Peter Ware Higgs (British) , Physicist
    Creator
    Anne-Katrin Purkiss (1959, British/German) , Photographer
    Object type
    Subject
    Description
    Photograph of Professor Peter Higgs at the Honorary Degree Ceremony at the University of Cambridge, June 2012.

    Professor Peter Ware Higgs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1983. Higgs was one of the theoreticians who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson (subatomic particle).
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