Physicist peter higgs biography for kids
Physicist peter higgs biography for kids
Biography for 2nd graders!
The shy man who changed our understanding of the Cosmos – Peter Higgs
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Prof Peter Higgs will be best known for that mysterious-sounding substance nicknamed the ‘God particle’ – or just simply, and probably more widely, the Higgs boson.
He came up with the radical idea in the 1960s when he desired to explain why the basic building blocks of the Universe – atoms – have mass.His theory about what binds the Cosmos together, which other researchers also worked on at the same time, began a 50-year search for the Holy Grail of physics.The particle was eventually discovered in 2012 by scientists employing the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland.
A quintessential shy man, he told journalists: “It’s very nice to be right sometimes.” A year later,his work earned him the Nobel Prize for physics.
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929, Peter Higgs was showing signs of brilliance at school itself.
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