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Kibble pioneered the study of topological defect generation in the early universe. The paradigmatic mechanism of defect formation across a second-order phase transition is known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. His paper on cosmic strings introduced the phenomenon into modern cosmology.
Jul 20, 2016 · Most notable, Dr. Kibble helped discover the Higgs mechanism, which explains why particles have mass. The discovery helped lay the foundation for the so-called Standard Model of particle...
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.
- M. J. Duff, K. S. Stelle
- 2021
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 13, 2014 · During October 1964, Higgs had discussions with Gerald Guralnik, Carl Hagen and Tom Kibble, who had discovered how the mass of non-interacting vector bosons can be generated by the Anderson mechanism (4).
Jun 13, 2014 · Prof Tom Kibble's work led to the discovery of the Higgs boson but he was overlooked for a Nobel Prize. By James Morgan. Science reporter, BBC News. A scientist who predicted the...
Jul 22, 2016 · Dr. Kibble’s research was at the root of at least three seminal discoveries that earned others the Nobel prize.