Peter Higgs
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British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
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Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are
Veritasium
Physicist whose paper on the Higgs Boson received fewer citations than the Watts and Strogatz small-world paper.

Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, The Big Bang, Aliens, Death, and Meaning | Lex Fridman Podcast #232
Lex Fridman
Physicist who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson, for which he later won the Nobel Prize.

Harry Cliff: Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider | Lex Fridman Podcast #92
Lex Fridman
The most famous of six people who independently introduced the idea of the Higgs field, explaining how particles acquire mass.

Biggest Mysteries in Physics: Antimatter, Dark Energy & ToE - Don Lincoln | Lex Fridman Podcast #497
Lex Fridman
Physicist who, along with others, postulated the existence of the Higgs field and its associated particle, the Higgs boson, responsible for giving mass to other particles.