Tom Kibble: breaking symmetries, breaking ground and the new boson

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Channel: Imperial College London · 2013 · Science & Technology

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In this lecture renowned particle physicist Steven Weinberg describes his first meeting with Tom Kibble while visiting Imperial in 1961-62. He also introduces Tom's ground-breaking work on broken symmetry and the Higgs boson and explains how a 1967 paper by Tom laid the foundation for understanding the photon.

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