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| name = Tom Kibble
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|birth_name=Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
| birth_name = Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble
| birth_place = [[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| birth_place = [[Madras]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British Raj|British India]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2016|6|2|1932|12|23}}
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| death_place =[[London]], England, UK
| death_place = [[London]], England
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| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
| fields = [[Theoretical physics]]
| fields = [[Theoretical physics]]<br>[[Quantum field theory]]
| workplaces = [[Imperial College London]]
| workplaces = [[Imperial College London]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BSc]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| alma_mater = [[University of Edinburgh]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BSc]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| doctoral_advisor = [[John Polkinghorne]]
| doctoral_advisor = [[John Polkinghorne]]
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| doctoral_students = [[Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi]]{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}<br>[[Jonathan Ashmore]]<ref name=ashphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of London|title=Aspects of quantum field theory|first= Jonathan Felix|last=Ashmore|date=1972|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.623991|website=ethos.bl.uk|hdl=10044/1/16203}}</ref>
| doctoral_students = [[John W. Barrett (physicist)|John W. Barrett]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Kibble_Tom/CV |title=Academy of Europe: CV }}</ref>
<br/>[[Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi]]{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}<br />[[Jonathan Ashmore]]<ref name=ashphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of London|title=Aspects of quantum field theory|first=Jonathan Felix|last=Ashmore|date=1972|url=http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.623991|website=ethos.bl.uk|hdl=10044/1/16203}}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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| thesis_title = Topics in quantum field theory: 1. Schwinger's action principle; 2. Dispersion relations for inelastic scattering processes
| thesis_title = Topics in quantum field theory: 1. Schwinger's action principle; 2. Dispersion relations for inelastic scattering processes
| thesis_year = 1958
| thesis_year = 1958
| thesis_url = https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/7695
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| known_for = [[Quantum field theory]], [[broken symmetry]], [[Higgs boson]], [[Higgs mechanism]], [[Kibble–Zurek mechanism]], [[cosmic strings]]
| known_for = {{no wrap|[[Einstein–Cartan theory|Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory]]}}<br>[[Kibble–Zurek mechanism]]<br>[[Higgs boson]]<br> [[Higgs mechanism]]<br>[[Cosmic strings]]<br>[[Spontaneous symmetry breaking]]
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| awards = {{Plainlist|
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* [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]] (1980)<ref name=frs/>
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* [[Guthrie Medal and Prize]] (1993)
* [[Guthrie Medal and Prize]] (1993)
* [[Sakurai Prize]] (2010)
* [[Sakurai Prize]] (2010)
* [[Dirac Prize#Dirac Medal of the ICTP|Dirac Medal]] (2013)
* [[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|Dirac Medal]] (2013)
* [[Albert Einstein Medal]] (2014)
* [[Albert Einstein Medal]] (2014)
* [[Isaac Newton Medal]] (2016)}}
* [[Isaac Newton Medal]] (2016)}}
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'''Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|MAE}}<ref name=frs/> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɪ|b|əl}}; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016), was a British [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], senior research investigator at the [[Blackett Laboratory]] and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at [[Imperial College London]].<ref name = Melville/> His research interests were in [[quantum field theory]], especially the interface between high-energy [[particle physics]] and [[cosmology]]. He is best known as one of the first to describe the [[Higgs mechanism]], and for his research on [[topological defect]]s. From the 1950s he was concerned about the [[nuclear arms race]] and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist.<ref name=natureobit>{{cite journal|last1=Gauntlett|first1=Jerome|title=Thomas Kibble (1932–2016) Theoretical physicist and Higgs-boson pioneer|journal=Nature|volume=534|issue=7609|year=2016|pages=622|pmid=27357788 |doi=10.1038/534622a|bibcode=2016Natur.534..622G|s2cid=4401102}}</ref>
'''Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRS|MAE}}<ref name=frs/> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|ɪ|b|əl}}; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]], senior research investigator at the [[Blackett Laboratory]] and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at [[Imperial College London]].<ref name = Melville/> His research interests were in [[quantum field theory]], especially the interface between high-energy [[particle physics]] and [[cosmology]]. He is best known as one of the first to describe the [[Higgs mechanism]], and for his research on [[topological defect]]s. From the 1950s he was concerned about the [[nuclear arms race]] and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist.<ref name=natureobit>{{cite journal|last1=Gauntlett|first1=Jerome|title=Thomas Kibble (1932–2016) Theoretical physicist and Higgs-boson pioneer|journal=Nature|volume=534|issue=7609|year=2016|page=622|pmid=27357788 |doi=10.1038/534622a|bibcode=2016Natur.534..622G|s2cid=4401102}}</ref>


==Early life and education==
==Early life and education==
Kibble was born in [[Madras]], in the [[Madras Presidency]] of [[British India]], on 23 December 1932.<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | surname = KIBBLE | othernames = Sir Thomas (Walter Bannerman) | id = U23025 | volume = 2016 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title =The International Who's Who 1996–97 | publisher =Europa Publications | edition =60 | year =1996 | pages =826–827 | isbn=9781857430219}}</ref> He was the son of the statistician Walter F. Kibble, and the grandson of William Bannerman, an officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]], and the author [[Helen Bannerman]]. His father was a mathematics professor at [[Madras Christian College]], and Kibble grew up playing on the grounds of the college and solving math puzzles his father gave him.<ref name="NYTObit" /> He was educated at [[Doveton Corrie Protestant Schools Association|Doveton Corrie School]] in Madras and then in Edinburgh, Scotland, at [[Stewart's Melville College|Melville College]] and at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name = Melville>{{cite web |url= http://issuu.com/stewartsmelvillefpnews/docs/fp_news_2014|title= Science – It's not Fiction; Tom Kibble|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= December 2014|website= FP News, The magazine and Annual Review of The Stewart's Melville FP Club|publisher= Daniel Stewart's and Melville College Former Pupils Club|page = 13|access-date= 28 July 2015}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a [[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] in 1955, [[Master of Arts|MA]] in 1956 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1958.<ref name=whoswho/><ref name=cv>{{cite web | last =Kibble | first =Tom | title =Thomas Walter Bannerman (Tom) Kibble&nbsp;– Biography | work =Curriculum vitae | publisher =The Academy of Europe | year =2011 | url =http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Kibble_Tom/CV}}</ref>
Kibble was born in [[Madras]], in the [[Madras Presidency]] of [[British India]], on 23 December 1932.<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who | title=Kibble, Sir Thomas (Walter Bannerman) | id = U23025 | volume = 2016 | edition = online [[Oxford University Press]]|location=Oxford}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title =The International Who's Who 1996–97 | publisher =Europa Publications | edition =60 | year =1996 | pages =826–827 | isbn=978-1-85743-021-9}}</ref> He was the son of the statistician Walter F. Kibble, and the grandson of William Bannerman, an officer in the [[Indian Medical Service]], and the author [[Helen Bannerman]]. His father was a mathematics professor at [[Madras Christian College]], and Kibble grew up playing on the grounds of the college and solving mathematics puzzles his father gave him.<ref name="NYTObit" /> He was educated at [[Doveton Corrie Protestant Schools Association|Doveton Corrie School]] in Madras and then in Edinburgh, Scotland, at [[Stewart's Melville College|Melville College]] and at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name = Melville>{{cite web |url= http://issuu.com/stewartsmelvillefpnews/docs/fp_news_2014|title= Science – It's not Fiction; Tom Kibble|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= December 2014|website= FP News, The magazine and Annual Review of The Stewart's Melville FP Club|publisher= Daniel Stewart's and Melville College Former Pupils Club|page = 13|access-date= 28 July 2015}}</ref> He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a [[Bachelor of Science|BSc]] in 1955, [[Master of Arts|MA]] in 1956 and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] in 1958.<ref name=whoswho/><ref name=cv>{{cite web | last =Kibble | first =Tom | title =Thomas Walter Bannerman (Tom) Kibble&nbsp;– Biography | work =Curriculum vitae | publisher =The Academy of Europe | year =2011 | url =http://www.ae-info.org/ae/User/Kibble_Tom/CV}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
Kibble worked on mechanisms of [[symmetry breaking]], [[phase transitions]] and the [[topological defect]]s (monopoles, [[cosmic strings]] or [[Domain wall (string theory)|domain walls]]) that can be formed.
Kibble worked on mechanisms of [[symmetry breaking]], [[phase transitions]] and the [[topological defect]]s (monopoles, [[cosmic strings]] or [[Domain wall (string theory)|domain walls]]) that can be formed.


He is most noted for his co-discovery of the [[Higgs mechanism]] and [[Higgs boson]] with [[Gerald Guralnik]] and [[C. R. Hagen|C.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;Hagen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v13/i20/p585_1|title=Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 585 (1964) – Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles|work=Physical Review Letters}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|arxiv=0907.3466|title= The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles|journal= International Journal of Modern Physics A|volume= 24|issue= 14|pages= 2601–2627|last1= Guralnik|first1= Gerald S.|year= 2009|doi= 10.1142/S0217751X09045431|bibcode= 2009IJMPA..24.2601G|s2cid= 16298371}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf |title=Guralnik, G S; Hagen, C R and Kibble, T W B (1967). Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem. Advances in Physics, vol. 2 |access-date=16 September 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924072804/http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> As part of [[Physical Review Letters]] 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognised this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prl.aps.org/50years/milestones#1964|title=Physical Review Letters – Letters from the Past – A PRL Retrospective|work=Physical Review Letters}}</ref> For this discovery Kibble was awarded the [[American Physical Society|American Physical Society's]] 2010 [[Sakurai Prize|J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/units/dpf/awards/sakurai.cfm|title=APS Physics – DPF – J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics|work=aps.org}}</ref> While Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble are widely considered to have authored the most complete of the [[1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers|early papers]] on the Higgs theory, they were [[Nobel Prize controversies#Physics|controversially]] not included in the 2013 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>[http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/nobel13.cfm APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History(October 8, 2013)]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/peter-higgs-francois-englert-win-nobel-prize-in-physics/2013/10/08/1d96aa72-2f98-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html "Nobel committee’s 'Rule of Three’ means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (October 8, 2013)]</ref><ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/21587771 "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs’s bosuns." Economist (October 12, 2013)]</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/economist-explains-8 "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist (October 9, 2013)]</ref><ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/21548911 "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist (March 3, 2012)]</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |arxiv = 1401.6924|bibcode = 2014MPLA...2950046G|title = Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?|journal = Modern Physics Letters A|volume = 29|issue = 9|pages = 1450046|last1 = Guralnik|first1 = G. S|last2 = Hagen|first2 = C. R|year = 2014|doi = 10.1142/S0217732314500461|s2cid = 119257339}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
He is most noted for his co-discovery of the [[Higgs mechanism]] and [[Higgs boson]] with [[Gerald Guralnik]] and [[C. R. Hagen|C.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;Hagen]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v13/i20/p585_1|title=Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 585 (1964) – Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles|journal=Physical Review Letters|doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585 |access-date=28 February 2008|archive-date=27 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527193724/https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585|url-status=dead|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|arxiv=0907.3466|title= The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles|journal= International Journal of Modern Physics A|volume= 24|issue= 14|pages= 2601–2627|last1= Guralnik|first1= Gerald S.|year= 2009|doi= 10.1142/S0217751X09045431|bibcode= 2009IJMPA..24.2601G|s2cid= 16298371}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf |title=Guralnik, G S; Hagen, C R and Kibble, T W B (1967). Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem. Advances in Physics, vol. 2 |access-date=16 September 2014 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924072804/http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~mcdonald/examples/EP/guralnik_ap_2_567_67.pdf }}</ref> As part of [[Physical Review Letters]] 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognised this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://prl.aps.org/50years/milestones#1964|title=Physical Review Letters – Letters from the Past – A PRL Retrospective|work=Physical Review Letters}}</ref> He was awarded the [[American Physical Society|American Physical Society's]] 2010 [[Sakurai Prize|J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/units/dpf/awards/sakurai.cfm|title=APS Physics – DPF – J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics|work=aps.org|access-date=30 January 2023}}</ref>
While Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble are widely considered to have authored the most complete of the [[1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers|early papers]] on the Higgs theory, they were [[Nobel Prize controversies#Physics|controversially]] not included in the 2013 [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].<ref>[http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/updates/nobel13.cfm APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History (8 October 2013)]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/peter-higgs-francois-englert-win-nobel-prize-in-physics/2013/10/08/1d96aa72-2f98-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html "Nobel committee's 'Rule of Three' means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (8 October 2013)]</ref><ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/21587771 "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs's bosuns." Economist (12 October 2013)]</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/10/economist-explains-8 "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist.com (9 October 2013)]</ref><ref>[http://www.economist.com/node/21548911 "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist.com (3 March 2012)]</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |arxiv = 1401.6924|bibcode = 2014MPLA...2950046G|title = Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?|journal = Modern Physics Letters A|volume = 29|issue = 9|page = 1450046|last1 = Guralnik|first1 = G. S|last2 = Hagen|first2 = C. R|year = 2014|doi = 10.1142/S0217732314500461|s2cid = 119257339}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
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}}</ref><ref name=NYTObit/> In 2014, Nobel Laureate [[Peter Higgs]] expressed disappointment that Kibble had not been chosen to share the Nobel Prize with [[François Englert]] and himself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26014584|title=Early night cost Higgs credit for big physics theory|work=BBC News|date=18 February 2014|access-date=18 February 2014}}</ref>
In 2014, Nobel Laureate [[Peter Higgs]] expressed disappointment that Kibble had not been chosen to share the Nobel Prize with [[François Englert]] and himself.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26014584|title=Early night cost Higgs credit for big physics theory|work=BBC News|date=18 February 2014|access-date=18 February 2014}}</ref>


Kibble pioneered the study of topological defect generation in the early universe.<ref name=Kibble76>
Kibble pioneered the study of topological defect generation in the early universe.<ref name=Kibble76>
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===Awards and honours===
===Awards and honours===
Kibble was an elected [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1980|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980]],<ref name=frs>{{cite web|author=Anon|year=1980|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|website=royalsociety.org|title=Sir Thomas Kibble CBE FRS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113152123/https://royalsociety.org/people/thomas-kibble-11746/|archive-date=13 November 2015|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/thomas-kibble-11746/|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]].” --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=2016-03-09 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=25 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Duff|first1=M. J.|last2=Stelle|first2=K. S.|date=2021|title=Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble. 23 December 1932—2 June 2016|url=https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.2020.0040|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=70|pages=225–244|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0040|s2cid=227209669}}</ref> of the [[Institute of Physics]] (1991), and of Imperial College London (2009). He was also a member of the American Physical Society (1958), the [[European Physical Society]] (1975) and the [[Academia Europaea]] (2000).<ref name=cv/> In 2008, Kibble was named an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.<ref name=natureobit/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees|title=APS Journals – Outstanding Referees|work=aps.org}}</ref>
Kibble was an elected [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1980|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980]],<ref name=frs>{{cite web|author=Anon|year=1980|publisher=[[Royal Society]]|website=royalsociety.org|title=Sir Thomas Kibble CBE FRS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151113152123/https://royalsociety.org/people/thomas-kibble-11746/|archive-date=13 November 2015|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/thomas-kibble-11746/|location=London}} One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: {{blockquote|"All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License]]." --{{cite web |url=https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |title=Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies |access-date=9 March 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925220834/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/ |archive-date=25 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Duff|first1=M. J.|last2=Stelle|first2=K. S.|date=2021|title=Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble. 23 December 1932—2 June 2016|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=70|pages=225–244|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2020.0040|s2cid=227209669|doi-access=free|arxiv=2011.13257}}</ref> of the [[Institute of Physics]] (1991), and of Imperial College London (2009). He was also a member of the American Physical Society (1958), the [[European Physical Society]] (1975) and the [[Academia Europaea]] (2000).<ref name=cv/> In 2008, Kibble was named an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.<ref name=natureobit/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://publish.aps.org/OutstandingReferees|title=APS Journals – Outstanding Referees|work=aps.org}}</ref>

In addition to the Sakurai Prize, Kibble has been awarded the [[Hughes Medal]] (1981) of the Royal Society, the [[Rutherford Medal and Prize|Rutherford]] (1984) and [[Guthrie Medal and Prize|Guthrie Medals]] (1993) of the Institute of Physics,<ref name=cv/> the [[Dirac Medal (ICTP)|Dirac]] Medal (2013),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/news-archive/2013/8/dirac_2013.aspx|title=Kibble, Peebles and Rees Share the 2013 Dirac Medal|date=8 August 2013|website=International Centre for Theoretical Physics|access-date=8 June 2016|archive-date=3 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211203142122/https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/news-archive/2013/8/dirac_2013.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> the [[Albert Einstein Medal]] (2014)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/57860|title=Faces & Places – Kibble receives Albert Einstein Medal|date=13 July 2014|journal=CERN Courier |access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> and the Royal Medal of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (2014).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/press/2014/Royal-Medallists-and-Prize-Winners-2014.pdf|title=Academic excellence recognised as RSE announces Royal Medals and Prizes|date=19 March 2014|website=Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=8 June 2016|archive-date=6 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306184457/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/press/2014/Royal-Medallists-and-Prize-Winners-2014.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>


In addition to the Sakurai Prize, Kibble has been awarded the [[Hughes Medal]] (1981) of the Royal Society, the [[Rutherford Medal and Prize|Rutherford]] (1984) and [[Guthrie Medal and Prize|Guthrie Medals]] (1993) of the Institute of Physics,<ref name=cv/> the [[Dirac Prize#Dirac Medal of the ICTP|Dirac]] Medal (2013),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/news-archive/2013/8/dirac_2013.aspx|title=Kibble, Peebles and Rees Share the 2013 Dirac Medal|date=8 August 2013|website=International Centre for Theoretical Physics|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> the [[Albert Einstein Medal]] (2014)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/57860|title=Faces & Places – Kibble receives Albert Einstein Medal|date=13 July 2014|journal=CERN Courier |access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> and the Royal Medal of the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] (2014).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/press/2014/Royal-Medallists-and-Prize-Winners-2014.pdf|title=Academic excellence recognised as RSE announces Royal Medals and Prizes|date=19 March 2014|website=Royal Society of Edinburgh|access-date=8 June 2016}}</ref> He was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the [[1998 Birthday Honours]] and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2014 Birthday Honours]] for services to physics.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60895 |date=14 June 2014 |page=b2 |supp=y}}</ref><ref name=Knighthood>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/13/queens-birthday-honours-knights|title=Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Knights|work=the Guardian|date=13 June 2014}}</ref>
He was appointed a [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in the [[1998 Birthday Honours]] and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the [[2014 Birthday Honours]] for services to physics.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=60895 |date=14 June 2014 |page=b2 |supp=y}}</ref><ref name=Knighthood>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jun/13/queens-birthday-honours-knights|title=Queen's birthday honours list 2014: Knights|work=the Guardian|date=13 June 2014}}</ref>


Kibble was posthumously awarded the [[Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal|Isaac Newton Medal]] by the Institute of Physics for his outstanding lifelong commitment to the field.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36675894 | title=Late scientist Tom Kibble wins award for particle work | work=[[BBC News]] | publisher=[[BBC]] | first=Pallab | last=Ghosh | date=1 July 2016 | access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref>
Kibble was posthumously awarded the [[Institute of Physics Isaac Newton Medal|Isaac Newton Medal]] by the Institute of Physics for his outstanding lifelong commitment to the field.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36675894 | title=Late scientist Tom Kibble wins award for particle work | work=[[BBC News]] | publisher=[[BBC]] | first=Pallab | last=Ghosh | date=1 July 2016 | access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
In 1966 Kibble authored a textbook, '[[Classical Mechanics (Kibble book)|Classical Mechanics]]'',<ref name="Kibble 1966">Kibble T W B (1966) ''Classical Mechanics''. [[McGraw-Hill]], London.</ref> from the 3rd edition onwards with [[Frank H. Berkshire]] which as of 2016 is still in print and is now in its 5th edition.<ref name="Kibble and Berkshire 2004">Kibble, T W B and Berkshire, F H (2004) ''Classical Mechanics''. [[McGraw-Hill]], London.</ref>
In 1966 Kibble authored a textbook, ''Classical Mechanics'',<ref name="Kibble 1966">Kibble T W B (1966) ''Classical Mechanics''. [[McGraw-Hill]], London.</ref> from the 3rd edition onwards with [[Frank H. Berkshire]]. which as of 2016 is still in print and is now in its 5th edition.<ref name="Kibble and Berkshire 2004">Kibble, T W B and Berkshire, F H (2004) ''Classical Mechanics''. [[McGraw-Hill]], London.</ref>


==Personal life and voluntary roles==
==Personal life and voluntary roles==
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Kibble became concerned about the nuclear arms race<ref name=sgr>[http://www.sgr.org.uk/pages/sgr-sponsors#TKibble SGR Sponsors]</ref> and from 1970 he took leading roles in several organisations promoting scientists' social responsibility.<ref name=cv/> In the period 1970–1977, he was a national committee member, then treasurer, then chair of the [[British Society for Social Responsibility in Science]]; from 1976 he was a trustee of the Science and Society Trust; from 1981 to 1991 he was a national coordinating committee member, then vice-chair, then chair of [[Scientists against Nuclear Arms]]; he was a sponsor of [[Scientists for Global Responsibility]]; and from 1988 he was chair, and later a trustee, of the Martin Ryle Trust.<ref name=sgr/> He was chair of the organising committee of the Second International Scientists' Congress, held at Imperial College in 1988, and was a co-editor of the proceedings.<ref name="Hassard, Kibble and Lewis 1989">Hassard, John; Kibble; Tom and Lewis, Patricia; (eds) (1989) ''Ways Out of the Arms Race: from the nuclear threat to mutual security''. World Scientific, Singapore.</ref>
In the 1950s and 1960s, Kibble became concerned about the nuclear arms race<ref name=sgr>[http://www.sgr.org.uk/pages/sgr-sponsors#TKibble SGR Sponsors]</ref> and from 1970 he took leading roles in several organisations promoting scientists' social responsibility.<ref name=cv/> In the period 1970–1977, he was a national committee member, then treasurer, then chair of the [[British Society for Social Responsibility in Science]]; from 1976 he was a trustee of the Science and Society Trust; from 1981 to 1991 he was a national coordinating committee member, then vice-chair, then chair of [[Scientists against Nuclear Arms]]; he was a sponsor of [[Scientists for Global Responsibility]]; and from 1988 he was chair, and later a trustee, of the Martin Ryle Trust.<ref name=sgr/> He was chair of the organising committee of the Second International Scientists' Congress, held at Imperial College in 1988, and was a co-editor of the proceedings.<ref name="Hassard, Kibble and Lewis 1989">Hassard, John; Kibble; Tom and Lewis, Patricia; (eds) (1989) ''Ways Out of the Arms Race: from the nuclear threat to mutual security''. World Scientific, Singapore.</ref>


In retirement, Kibble chaired the [[Richmond, London|Richmond]] branch of the [[Ramblers Association]].<ref name="Richmond Ramblers">{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondramblers.org.uk/news/78-sir-tom-kibble.html |title=Arise Sir Tom! |website=Richmond Ramblers |access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref>
In retirement, Kibble chaired the [[Richmond, London|Richmond]] branch of the [[Ramblers Association]].<ref name="Richmond Ramblers">{{Cite web |url=https://www.richmondramblers.org.uk/news/78-sir-tom-kibble.html |title=Arise Sir Tom! |website=Richmond Ramblers |access-date=19 March 2019 }}{{Dead link|date=December 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>


He died in London on 2 June 2016 at the age of 83.<ref name="DeathTelegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/02/tom-kibble-uk-physicist-who-worked-on-higgs-boson-dies-says-his/ |title=Tom Kibble, UK physicist who worked on Higgs boson dies, says university |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2 June 2016 |access-date=2 June 2016 }}</ref><ref name="NYTObit">{{cite web |date=19 July 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/tom-kibble-physicist-who-helped-discover-the-higgs-mechanism-dies-at-83.html |title=Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83 |work=[[New York Times]]|author= Yin, Steph|access-date= 19 March 2019}}</ref>
He died in London on 2 June 2016 at the age of 83.<ref name="DeathTelegraph">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/02/tom-kibble-uk-physicist-who-worked-on-higgs-boson-dies-says-his/ |title=Tom Kibble, UK physicist who worked on Higgs boson dies, says university |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=2 June 2016 |access-date=2 June 2016 }}</ref><ref name="NYTObit">{{cite web |date=19 July 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/tom-kibble-physicist-who-helped-discover-the-higgs-mechanism-dies-at-83.html |title=Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83 |work=[[New York Times]]|author= Yin, Steph|access-date= 19 March 2019}}</ref>
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For the rugby player, see Tom Kibble (rugby union).

Sir
Tom Kibble
CBE FRS MAE
Born
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble

(1932-12-23)23 December 1932
Madras, Madras Presidency, British India
Died2 June 2016(2016-06-02) (aged 83)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (BSc, MA, PhD)
Known forEinstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory
Kibble–Zurek mechanism
Higgs boson
Higgs mechanism
Cosmic strings
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsTheoretical physics
Quantum field theory
InstitutionsImperial College London
ThesisTopics in quantum field theory: 1. Schwinger's action principle; 2. Dispersion relations for inelastic scattering processes (1958)
Doctoral advisorJohn Polkinghorne
Doctoral studentsJohn W. Barrett[2]
Seifallah Randjbar-Daemi[citation needed]
Jonathan Ashmore[3]

Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble CBE FRS MAE[1] (/ˈkɪbəl/; 23 December 1932 – 2 June 2016) was a British theoretical physicist, senior research investigator at the Blackett Laboratory and Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London.[4] His research interests were in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He is best known as one of the first to describe the Higgs mechanism, and for his research on topological defects. From the 1950s he was concerned about the nuclear arms race and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist.[5]

Early life and education

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Kibble was born in Madras, in the Madras Presidency of British India, on 23 December 1932.[6][7] He was the son of the statistician Walter F. Kibble, and the grandson of William Bannerman, an officer in the Indian Medical Service, and the author Helen Bannerman. His father was a mathematics professor at Madras Christian College, and Kibble grew up playing on the grounds of the college and solving mathematics puzzles his father gave him.[8] He was educated at Doveton Corrie School in Madras and then in Edinburgh, Scotland, at Melville College and at the University of Edinburgh.[4] He graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc in 1955, MA in 1956 and a PhD in 1958.[6][9]

Career

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Kibble worked on mechanisms of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects (monopoles, cosmic strings or domain walls) that can be formed.

He is most noted for his co-discovery of the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with Gerald Guralnik and C. R. Hagen.[10][11][12] As part of Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognised this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history.[13] He was awarded the American Physical Society's 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.[14]

While Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble are widely considered to have authored the most complete of the early papers on the Higgs theory, they were controversially not included in the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][8]

In 2014, Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs expressed disappointment that Kibble had not been chosen to share the Nobel Prize with François Englert and himself.[22]

Kibble pioneered the study of topological defect generation in the early universe.[23] The paradigmatic mechanism of defect formation across a second-order phase transition is known as the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. His paper on cosmic strings introduced the phenomenon into modern cosmology.[24]

He was 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 ran from 2001 to 2005. He was previously the coordinator of an ESF Network on Topological Defects in Particle Physics, Condensed Matter & Cosmology (TOPDEF).[9]

Awards and honours

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Kibble was an elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1980,[1][25] of the Institute of Physics (1991), and of Imperial College London (2009). He was also a member of the American Physical Society (1958), the European Physical Society (1975) and the Academia Europaea (2000).[9] In 2008, Kibble was named an Outstanding Referee by the American Physical Society.[5][26]

In addition to the Sakurai Prize, Kibble has been awarded the Hughes Medal (1981) of the Royal Society, the Rutherford (1984) and Guthrie Medals (1993) of the Institute of Physics,[9] the Dirac Medal (2013),[27] the Albert Einstein Medal (2014)[28] and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2014).[29]

He was appointed a CBE in the 1998 Birthday Honours and was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to physics.[30][31]

Kibble was posthumously awarded the Isaac Newton Medal by the Institute of Physics for his outstanding lifelong commitment to the field.[32]

Publications

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In 1966 Kibble authored a textbook, Classical Mechanics,[33] from the 3rd edition onwards with Frank H. Berkshire. which as of 2016 is still in print and is now in its 5th edition.[34]

Personal life and voluntary roles

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Kibble was married to Anne Allan from 1957 until her death in 2005. Kibble had three children.[35][36][37][38][39]

In the 1950s and 1960s, Kibble became concerned about the nuclear arms race[40] and from 1970 he took leading roles in several organisations promoting scientists' social responsibility.[9] In the period 1970–1977, he was a national committee member, then treasurer, then chair of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science; from 1976 he was a trustee of the Science and Society Trust; from 1981 to 1991 he was a national coordinating committee member, then vice-chair, then chair of Scientists against Nuclear Arms; he was a sponsor of Scientists for Global Responsibility; and from 1988 he was chair, and later a trustee, of the Martin Ryle Trust.[40] He was chair of the organising committee of the Second International Scientists' Congress, held at Imperial College in 1988, and was a co-editor of the proceedings.[41]

In retirement, Kibble chaired the Richmond branch of the Ramblers Association.[42]

He died in London on 2 June 2016 at the age of 83.[43][8]

References

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    "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ^ "Academy of Europe: CV".
  3. ^ Ashmore, Jonathan Felix (1972). Aspects of quantum field theory. ethos.bl.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. hdl:10044/1/16203.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ a b "Science – It's not Fiction; Tom Kibble". FP News, The magazine and Annual Review of The Stewart's Melville FP Club. Daniel Stewart's and Melville College Former Pupils Club. December 2014. p. 13. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
  5. ^ a b Gauntlett, Jerome (2016). "Thomas Kibble (1932–2016) Theoretical physicist and Higgs-boson pioneer". Nature. 534 (7609): 622. Bibcode:2016Natur.534..622G. doi:10.1038/534622a. PMID 27357788. S2CID 4401102.
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  7. ^ The International Who's Who 1996–97 (60 ed.). Europa Publications. 1996. pp. 826–827. ISBN 978-1-85743-021-9.
  8. ^ a b c Yin, Steph (19 July 2016). "Tom Kibble, Physicist Who Helped Discover the Higgs Mechanism, Dies at 83". New York Times. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  9. ^ a b c d e Kibble, Tom (2011). "Thomas Walter Bannerman (Tom) Kibble – Biography". Curriculum vitae. The Academy of Europe.
  10. ^ "Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 585 (1964) – Global Conservation Laws and Massless Particles". Physical Review Letters. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.585. Archived from the original on 27 May 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
  11. ^ Guralnik, Gerald S. (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles". International Journal of Modern Physics A. 24 (14): 2601–2627. arXiv:0907.3466. Bibcode:2009IJMPA..24.2601G. doi:10.1142/S0217751X09045431. S2CID 16298371.
  12. ^ "Guralnik, G S; Hagen, C R and Kibble, T W B (1967). Broken Symmetries and the Goldstone Theorem. Advances in Physics, vol. 2" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 16 September 2014.
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  15. ^ APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History (8 October 2013)
  16. ^ "Nobel committee's 'Rule of Three' means some Higgs boson scientists were left out." Washington Post (8 October 2013)
  17. ^ "The 2013 Nobel prizes. Higgs's bosuns." Economist (12 October 2013)
  18. ^ "Why are some scientists unhappy with the Nobel prizes?" Economist.com (9 October 2013)
  19. ^ "House of dreams. Scientists race to explain why the Higgs boson matters." Economist.com (3 March 2012)
  20. ^ Guralnik, G. S; Hagen, C. R (2014). "Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?". Modern Physics Letters A. 29 (9): 1450046. arXiv:1401.6924. Bibcode:2014MPLA...2950046G. doi:10.1142/S0217732314500461. S2CID 119257339.
  21. ^ "Gerald Guralnik, 77, a 'God Particle' Pioneer, Dies". The New York Times. 3 May 2014.
  22. ^ "Early night cost Higgs credit for big physics theory". BBC News. 18 February 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2014.
  23. ^ Kibble, T. W. B. (1976). "Topology of cosmic domains and strings". J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 9 (8): 1387–1398. Bibcode:1976JPhA....9.1387K. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/9/8/029.
  24. ^ Hindmarsh, M.; Kibble, T. (1995). "Cosmic strings". Rep. Prog. Phys. 58 (5): 477–562. arXiv:hep-ph/9411342. Bibcode:1995RPPh...58..477H. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/58/5/001. S2CID 118892895.
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  27. ^ "Kibble, Peebles and Rees Share the 2013 Dirac Medal". International Centre for Theoretical Physics. 8 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 December 2021. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  28. ^ "Faces & Places – Kibble receives Albert Einstein Medal". CERN Courier. 13 July 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
  29. ^ "Academic excellence recognised as RSE announces Royal Medals and Prizes" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. 19 March 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
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  40. ^ a b SGR Sponsors
  41. ^ Hassard, John; Kibble; Tom and Lewis, Patricia; (eds) (1989) Ways Out of the Arms Race: from the nuclear threat to mutual security. World Scientific, Singapore.
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