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Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
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Born (1932-12-23) 23 December 1932 (age 91)[1]
Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh, BS, MA, PhD
Known forQuantum field theory, Broken symmetry, Higgs Boson, Higgs mechanism, and Cosmology
AwardsSakurai Prize

Hughes Medal
Rutherford Medal and Prize
Guthrie Medal and Prize
Fellow of the Royal Society

Fellow of Imperial College London
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
InstitutionsImperial College London

Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble, FRS, (born 23 December 1932) is a British scientist and senior research investigator at The Blackett Laboratory, at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He has worked on mechanisms of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain walls) that can be formed. His seminal paper on cosmic strings introduced the phenomenon into modern cosmology.[2] He graduated from the University of Edinburgh (MA 1955, BSc 1956, PhD 1958).[3]


Career

Kibble is noted for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with Gerald Guralnik and C. R. Hagen.[4][5][6] As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognized this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[7] For this discovery Dr. Kibble was awarded The American Physical Society's 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.[8] Dr. Kibble is also a Fellow of the Royal Society, of the Institute of Physics, and of Imperial College London, a member of the American Physical Society, the European Physical Society and the Academia Europaea, and a CBE. He has been awarded the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society and the Rutherford and Guthrie Medals of the Institute of Physics.

Kibble is one of the two co-chairs of an interdisciplinary research Programme funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF) on Cosmology in the Laboratory (COSLAB) which runs from 2001 to 2005. He was previously the coordinator of an ESF Network on Topological Defects in Particle Physics, Condensed Matter & Cosmology (TOPDEF). Kibble is the author, jointly with Frank Berkshire of the Imperial College Mathematics Department, of a textbook on classical mechanics. The fifth edition was published by Imperial College Press in Spring 2004. In 2008, Kibble was named an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.[9]

Kibble is an avid cyclist. He was born in Madras, India and is the grandson of author Helen Bannerman and William Bannerman who was an officer in the Indian Medical Service.

References

  1. ^ The International Who's Who 1996-97 (60 ed.). Europa Publications. 1996. pp. 826–827. ISBN 9781857430219. [1]
  2. ^ Hindmarsh, M.; Kibble, T. (1995). "Cosmic strings". Rept.Prog.Phys. 58: 477–562. arXiv:hep-ph/9411342. Bibcode:1995RPPh...58..477H. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/58/5/001.
  3. ^ Kibble, Tom (2011). "Thomas Walter Bannerman (Tom) Kibble - Biography". Curriculum vitae. The Academy of Europe.
  4. ^ Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles
  5. ^ The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles
  6. ^ Guralnik, G S; Hagen, C R and Kibble, T W B (1967). Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem. Advances in Physics, vol. 2
  7. ^ Physical Review Letters – 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers
  8. ^ American Physical Society – J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners
  9. ^ American Physical Society Outstanding Referees

See also

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