{"id":262448,"date":"2025-11-14T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262448\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:12:08","slug":"prof-peter-higgs-nobel-prize-medal-donated-to-edinburgh-university-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/262448\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Peter Higgs Nobel Prize medal donated to Edinburgh University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Neil Turok, Higgs chairman of theoretical physics at the university, told BBC Radio&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c20597j2qvvo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning Scotland<\/a> programme what it was like to work with his late colleague.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was a very unusual person and is very warmly remembered in the physics department,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was a very shy and private man. A very unlikely figure to discover what is one of the most important foundations of our descriptions of the laws of nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Prof Higgs made his discovery in a &#8220;very unexpected way&#8221; in 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He put various ideas together, which has been around, but he finally saw how the jigsaw puzzle worked,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He wrote a very short paper, just one-and-a-half pages, many people thought it was ridiculous, and it took a long time for the idea to be accepted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The theory was proved 50 years later with the Large Hadron Collider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Neil Turok, Higgs chairman of theoretical physics at the university, told BBC Radio&#8217;s Good Morning Scotland programme&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2302,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-262448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-physics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}