Nobel winners Professors Peter Higgs and Francois Englert are to receive honorary degrees at the University o
Nobel winners Professors Peter Higgs and Francois Englert are to receive honorary degrees at the University of Edinburgh on Saturday, in a ceremony at which Prof Higgs will also be given the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh. Please see details below. Catriona Kelly Press and PR Office University of Edinburgh T: 0131 651 4401 M: 07791 355940 Issued: Thursday 26 June 2014 ________________________________________ PHOTO CALL , SATURDAY 28 JUNE 2014 McEWAN HALL, BRISTO SQUARE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, EDINBURGH EH8 9AL Nobel-winning scientists honoured at graduation ceremony Celebrated Nobel laureates Professors Peter Higgs and Francois Englert are to receive honorary degrees at a ceremony in Edinburgh this weekend (Saturday). Professor Higgs, of the University of Edinburgh, and Professor Englert, of Université Libre de Bruxelles, are to receive doctorates in science from one another's institutions, at a graduation ceremony in the University of Edinburgh's McEwan Hall. Professors Higgs and Englert won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 for independently discovering a mechanism that enables elementary particles to acquire mass. The new subatomic particle predicted by the mechanism, the Brout-Englert-Higgs boson, was confirmed to exist in 2012 following ground-breaking experiments at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. At the event, Professor Sir Tom Kibble from Imperial College London, who also developed the theory of the mechanism, will receive a Royal Medal from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director-General of CERN, will be awarded an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh.
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