Rejected petition To recognise Peter Ware Higgs, British Theoretical physics with a Knighthood

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To recognise Peter Ware Higgs, British Theoretical physics with a Knighthood..
He is best known for his 1960s proposal of broken symmetry in electroweak theory, explaining the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular. This so-called Higgs mechanism, which had several inventors besides Higgs at about the same time, predicts the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson (often described as "the most sought-after particle in modern physics"). The Higgs mechanism is generally accepted as an important ingredient in the Standard Model of particle physics, without which particles would have no mass.

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Date submitted 4 July 2012
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