Peter Higgs, the father of the ‘God Particle’ theory, has claimed that the Nobel committee overlooked a second British scientist when awarding him its physics prize last month.
Prof Higgs shared the award with Francois Englert, a Belgian scientist, for their independent work which led to the discovery of the Higgs Boson at the Cern laboratory in Geneva last year.
But he claimed that Tom Kibble, an Imperial College physicist who was part of a third team working on the theory, should have been given a share of the prize. Prof Higgs said it was a “shame” that Kibble, whose work with two American colleagues was published just months after Higgs and Englert, had missed out.
The Nobel committee faced a difficult decision when awarding the prize last month because six scientists contributed to the original theory, which helps explain how the building blocks of the universe have mass.
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