In the News

​News items about Peter Higgs and Higgs research in Edinburgh

  • 12 November 2013. Peter Higgs at the opening of the new Science Museum London exhibition 'Collider: Step Inside the World's Greatest Experiment'.
  • 16 October 2013. Peter Higgs receives an Honorary Degree from the University of Manchester.
  • 26 September 2013 Peter Higgs receives an Honorary Degree from La Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati di Trieste (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy.
  • 13 September 2013 Peter Higgs receives an Honorary Degree from the University of St Andrews.
  • 9 July 2013 (tbc) Peter Higgs receives the Freedom of the City of Bristol.
  • 28 June - 4 July 2013 Peter Higgs invited guest at the 50th Subnuclear Physics School at Erice in Italy.
  • 26 June 2013 Peter Higgs receives an Honorary Degree from the University of Durham.
  • 20 June 2013 Peter Higgs, Alan Walker, Victoria Martin and Francisca Garay give a joint talk 'An Audience With Peter Higgs' to an audience of 1200 at the McEwan Hall Edinburgh. First release of tickets sold out.
  • 14 June 2013 A major new portrait of Peter Higgs by Victoria Crowe is unveiled at the Royal Society of Edinburgh Summer Reception. The portrait was jointly commissioned by the RSE and the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. At the same ceremony Alan Walker receives the first RSE Pro Meritas Award in recognition of his exceptional support for the society and his major contribution to the RSE 'From Maxwell to Higgs' exhibition.
  • 6 June 2013 Peter Higgs gives a joint lecture at the Cheltenham Science Festival with Sergio Bertolucci, Director of Research and Scientific Computing at CERN and Tara Shears, Professor of Physics at the University of Liverpool.
  • 5 June 2013 Peter Higgs is in converstion with Dara O'Briain at the 2013 Cheltenham Science Festival.
  • 6 May 2013 Peter Higgs, Alan Walker, Christos Leonidopoulos and Conor Fitzpatrick give a joint talk 'An Audience with Peter Higgs and Colleagues' at Queen's University Belfast. The event was sold out within 24 hours of being announced on the STFC website. This talk was part of the programme of public exhibition and talks from 4-10 May 2013, centred around the visiting STFC "LHC on Tour ' exhibition. 
  • 3 May 2013 Peter Higgs, Alan Walker, Victoria Martin and Francisca Garay give a joint talk 'Four Generations of the Higgs Boson' to an audience of 450 at the National University of Ireland Maynooth College, Dublin Ireland. This was part of the Irish Quantum Foundations Conference hosted by Trinity College Dublin. The event was sold out in ninety minutes!
  • 2 May 2013 Peter Higgs, Alan Walker, Victoria Martin and Francisca Garay give a joint talk 'A Conversation with Peter Higgs and Colleagues' at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Ireland. The event was sold out ijust a few hours hours.
  • 26 April 2013. Peter Higgs is awarded an Honorary Membership of the Saltire Society.
  • 17 April 2013 BBC TV Scotland shows the Ken MacDonald documentary 'Peter Higgs: Particle Man' on BBC Scotland. It was repeated later on the BBC News Channel.
  • 24 March 2013 Peter Higgs is awarded the Edinburgh International Science Festival Edinburgh Medal jointly with CERN. Director General Rolf Heuer received the medal on behalf of CERN.
  • 14 March 2013: New results, presented at the Moriond conferences in La Thuile, Italy, indicate that particle discovered at CERN is indeed a Higgs boson.
  • 6 February 2013 Peter Higgs is guest of honour at a joint reception in the Scottish Parliament hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Science and technology Facilities Council. This was part of the programme of public exhibition and talks from 2-8 February 2013, centred around the visiting STFC 'LHC on Tour ' exhibition.
  • 5 February 2013 Peter Higgs is guest of honour at a reception hosted by the First Minister Alex Salmond at Bute House, Edinburgh.
  • 29 January 2013 Peter Higgs is appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Scociety for the Arts.
  • 26 January 2013 Peter Higgs is awarded the 2013 Nonino Prize "Man of Our Time' at a ceremony at the Nonino Distillery at Percoto, Udine Italy.
  • 29 December 2012 Peter Higgs is awarded the Companion of Honour in the New Year's Honours list 2013.
  • 17-19 December 2012 Peter Higgs visits CERN with the Principal and senior personnel from the University of Edinburgh.
  • 10 December 2012 Peter Higgs gives the first annual Higgs Lecture, entitled 'Putting Maxwell In His Place' at King's College London.
  • 7 December 2012 Peter Higgs is an invited guest at the Royal Society of Edinburgh celebration of the life of C T R Wilson, inventor of the cloud chamber.
  • 27 November 2012 Peter Higgs and Francoise Englert contribute personal recollections at the 11th Annual STOA Lecture 'Unlocking the Mysteries of the Universe' in the European Parliament in Brussels.
  • 16 November 2012 Peter Higgs receives an honorary degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
  • 13 November 2012 Peter Higgs delivers an invited lecture at the IZEST conference 'Laser-based High Energy Physics' at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
  • 7 November 2012 Peter Higgs meets with new friends from the Ca l'Arenys microbrewery at El Vaso de Oro in Barcelona and tastes and approves of their Higgs Boson Ale, specially brewed as a tribute after the news from CERN on July 4.
Last updated on Tuesday, 14 May 2013 - 3:48pm