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In the 1950s and 1960s, Kibble became concerned about the nuclear arms race and from 1970 he took leading roles in several organisations promoting scientists' social responsibility. In the period 1970–1977, he was a national committee member, then treasurer, then chair of the
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Guralnik, Gerald S. (2009). "The History of the Guralnik, Hagen and Kibble development of the Theory of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Gauge Particles".
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Kibble pioneered the study of topological defect generation in the early universe. The paradigmatic mechanism of defect formation across a second-order
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50th anniversary celebration, the journal recognised this discovery as one of the milestone papers in PRL history. He was awarded the
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Topics in quantum field theory: 1. Schwinger's action principle; 2. Dispersion relations for inelastic scattering processes
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Gauntlett, Jerome (2016). "Thomas Kibble (1932–2016) Theoretical physicist and Higgs-boson pioneer".
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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While Guralnik, Hagen, and Kibble are widely considered to have authored the most complete of the
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Kibble was married to Anne Allan from 1957 until her death in 2005. Kibble had three children.
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APS News - 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Landmark Papers in PRL History (8 October 2013)
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and from 1970 took leading roles in promoting the social responsibility of the scientist.
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He was one of the two co-chairs of an interdisciplinary research programme funded by the
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expressed disappointment that Kibble had not been chosen to share the Nobel Prize with
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by the Institute of Physics for his outstanding lifelong commitment to the field.
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Guralnik, G. S; Hagen, C. R (2014). "Where have all the Goldstone bosons gone?".
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FP News, The magazine and Annual Review of The Stewart's Melville FP Club
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T. W. B. Papers written by T. Kibble on the Mathematical Reviews website
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Ways Out of the Arms Race: from the nuclear threat to mutual security
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2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics Recipient
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Kibble, T. W. B. (1976). "Topology of cosmic domains and strings".
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Imperial College London on PRL 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers
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J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics recipients
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In addition to the Sakurai Prize, Kibble has been awarded the
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Hassard, John; Kibble; Tom and Lewis, Patricia; (eds) (1989)
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Papers written by T. Kibble in the INSPIRE-HEP database
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Hindmarsh, M.; Kibble, T. (1995). "Cosmic strings".
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British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
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J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
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University of London. 706: 670:Scientists for Global Responsibility 644:, from the 3rd edition onwards with 640:In 1966 Kibble authored a textbook, 628:Kibble was posthumously awarded the 148:Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory 1792: 1429:Duff, M. J.; Stelle, K. S. (2021). 935:The International Who's Who 1996–97 13: 1778:Gauntlett, Jerome (10 June 2016). 695: 675:In retirement, Kibble chaired the 602:(2014) and the Royal Medal of the 319:Sir Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble 14: 2306: 1875: 984: 652:Personal life and voluntary roles 586:(1981) of the Royal Society, the 372:. His research interests were in 2280:Albert Einstein Medal recipients 786:Ashmore, Jonathan Felix (1972). 336: 1771: 1747: 1727: 1707: 1687: 1621: 1583: 1564:. 19 March 2014. Archived from 1547: 1521: 1505:. 8 August 2013. 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Index

Tom Kibble (rugby union)
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FRS
MAE
Madras
Madras Presidency
British India
London
British
University of Edinburgh
BSc
MA
PhD
Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory
Kibble–Zurek mechanism
Higgs boson
Higgs mechanism
Cosmic strings
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
FRS
Hughes Medal
Rutherford Medal and Prize
Guthrie Medal and Prize
Sakurai Prize
Dirac Medal
Albert Einstein Medal
Isaac Newton Medal
Theoretical physics
Quantum field theory

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