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I don't think Higgs is really widely considered monumental in the same was as those other people. He had one good idea (at essentially the same time as Brout,
by evanb 7y ago
I don't think Higgs is really widely considered monumental in the same was as those other people. He had one good idea (at essentially the same time as Brout, Englert, Kibble, ...) which got his name attached. But I am a professional physicist and know none of his other work, in contrast to Dyson, Weinberg, Witten, t' Hooft, ...