Peter Higgs - Audio Biography

Peter Higgs: A Life in Pursuit of the Fundamental Early Life and Education Peter Ware Higgs was born on May 29, 1929, in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. His parents, Thomas Ware Higgs and Gertrude Maude Coghill, were both involved in the arts - his father was a sound engineer for the BBC, and his mother was a former classical pianist. Despite his parents" artistic inclinations, young Peter showed an early interest in science and mathematics. Higgs" childhood was marked by the tumultuous events of