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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 · July 19, 2016. Though Tom Kibble never received a Nobel Prize in Physics, the consensus among his colleagues is that he deserved one. His research was at the root of at least three...
Tom Kibble was a renowned theoretical physicist who contributed to the Standard Model and symmetry breaking in particle physics. He also studied phase transitions and cosmic strings in the early universe and received many honours, including a knighthood.
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
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.
Jul 1, 2016 · The late Professor Kibble, who died in 2016, received the highest UK award for physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and astroparticle physics. He proposed the Higgs mechanism, a key concept in particle physics, and influenced many fields of research.
