Benjamin W. Lee
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Benjamin Whisoh Lee, or Ben Lee, was a South Korean and American theoretical physicist. His work in theoretical particle physics exerted great influence on the development of the Standard Model in the
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Higgs mechanism
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In the Standard Model of particle physics, the Higgs mechanism is essential to explain the generation mechanism of the property "mass" for gauge bosons. Without the Higgs mechanism, all bosons would b
Benjamin W. Lee
…interactions. In 1964, Lee published an article about spontaneous symmetry breaking with his advisor Abraham Klein and contributed to the appearance of Higgs mechanism. He is often credited with the naming of the Higgs boson and Higgs mechanism. In 1969, he succeeded in the renormalization of spontaneously broken gauge…
Philip W. Anderson, the first to implement the mechanism in 1962.
Five of the six 2010 APS Sakurai Prize Winners – (L to R) Tom Kibble, Gerald Guralnik, Carl Richard Hagen, François Englert, and Robert Brout
Peter Higgs in 2009