Peter Higgs still do not like that name. He calls it as

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The man, whose name bears the Higgs particle does not like hype. He could not be reached on Tuesday for the Nobel committee and this week has not shown elsewhere in the world. But now he has come from the press in Edinburgh. "I was just fast times at lunch."
Peter Higgs is a star, at least in physics. Because he is one of the spiritual fathers of the famous Higgs particle. So that particle, which was detected last year at the research center CERN in Geneva, and for the "invention" ganoderma Peter Higgs has been honored this week with the Nobel Prize in Physics. But the 84-year-old may not be a star. As the Nobel Committee ganoderma called him on Tuesday, he was not reachable. He had cleared, did not answer any congratulations and any press inquiries.
Even close friends did not know where he was. He was swallowed by the earth. But he has still shown to the public at noon on Friday, with an appearance at his home university in Edinburgh. ganoderma "I was just fast times at lunch," he says to his dive on Tuesday. Restrained, but not shy
Peter Higgs does not like the limelight, which he was always uncomfortable," says the "Guardian" journalist Ian Sample. Sample has written a book about the hunt for the Higgs particle ("Massive"). But he has Peter Higgs hit several times. That was not so easy. For the British researchers had long no mobile phone, and he does not use e-mail. Says Ian Sample ganoderma had to write him letters. "The answer came each months later, ganoderma handwritten," he says.
Who wants to meet Peter Higgs, that takes patience. But many journalists are not patient and describe why Peter Higgs as a loner. But this is a cliché, says Ian Sample. Peter Higgs was not at all afraid of people. On the contrary: he was traveling a lot, give a lot of lectures. ganoderma
Only with his fame he had never really became ganoderma friends. "He does not beat his own big drum," says Sample - in contrast to many other researchers. This was also at the press conference in Edinburgh. It was visibly uncomfortable in front of him at the beginning of the many photographers. But the joy was to see Peter Higgs but, according to the journalist. He had, of course, very happy about the price, "especially about the fact that the wait is now over. The power of a name
Peter Higgs was namely acted as Nobel Prize candidate for a long time. The reason for this are two scientific ganoderma articles from 1964. Therein, the then young researchers presented a new concept that should bear much fruit later. Physicists agree to today as the building blocks of matter get their mass.
Other researchers dealt with similar ideas at that time, for example, the Belgian François Englert, with the Higgs divides this year's Nobel Prize. However, particles and Higgs field are named today. Thanks to the Peter Higgs has also his colleague ganoderma Benjamin Lee, who began at a conference ganoderma in 1972, "Higgs-like" to describe the new theory. And from then on it was the Higgs particle.
Peter Higgs still do not like that name. He calls it as "the particle that bears my name" or ABEGHHK'tH particles, after all the researchers who have contributed to this theory (Anderson, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen, Higgs, Kibble and t'Hooft ).
The journalist Ian Sample is the sympathetic, but he said: "At some point, Peter Higgs have to get used to it, that he was the first who suggested the new particle. We have black on white ", the physicist Higgs showed reasonable at the press conference in Edinburgh., It is unrealistic to change the name now, he said dryly. A bitter setback
A part of Higgs modesty is probably the fact that he also failed spectacularly in his career to some extent. He did not make it namely to apply his own theory on the right elementary particles. Instead, they succeeded, for example, the physicist Steven Weinberg, with an elegant theory, for which he was honored in 1979 with the Nobel Prize.
This failure was hurting Peter Higgs undoubtedly still says Ian Sample: ganoderma "He often says that he had contributed anything essential ganoderma to physics. The Nobel Committee ganoderma obviously disagree.
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