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Personal Chair

Great Britain · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1980

Peter Ware Higgs1980

Edinburgh · Science / Physics

Is promoted to a Personal Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh.

Names involved

Peter Ware Higgs

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