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Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble CBE FRS MAE (/ ˈ k ɪ b əl /; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British theoretical physicist, senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.
Jun 3, 2016 · Sir Tom Kibble, who made ground-breaking contributions to the Higgs mechanism and the standard model of particle physics, died in 2016 at the age of 83. He was a distinguished professor and head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, and a recipient of the Sakurai Prize and the knighthood.
- Andrew Czyzewski
Jul 20, 2016 · Dr. Kibble, who died on June 2 in London at 83 and who was long associated with Imperial College London, conducted research that spanned the scales of physics, explaining fundamental...
Jun 8, 2016 · Sir Tom Kibble, who has died aged 83, was a leading British particle physicist whose work helped lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle named after Peter Higgs, the ...
Jun 29, 2016 · Tom Kibble contributed to our deepest understanding of the fabric and forces of the Universe. He is best known for his work on the phenomenon called spontaneous symmetry breaking — a...
- Jerome Gauntlett
- j.gauntlett@imperial.ac.uk
- 2016
Mar 24, 2021 · Professor Tom Kibble was an internationally-renowned theoretical physicist whose contributions to theoretical physics range from the theory of elementary particles to modern early-Universe cosmology. The unifying theme behind all his work is the theory of non-abelian gauge theories, the Yang–Mills extension of electromagnetism.
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Jun 2, 2016 · Tom Kibble, a leading British physicist whose work helped lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson, died on Thursday aged 83, his university in London said.
