Higgs
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The term Higgs appears in:
- Alan Higgs, English businessman and philanthropist
- Rebekah Higgs, Canadian indie folk rock singer from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Sir Derek Higgs, an English business leader and merchant banker
- Eric Sidney Higgs, English archaeologist
- Henry Higgs (1864 - 1940) English civil servant, economist and historian of economic thought
- Joe Higgs, Jamaican singer and musician
- Ken Higgs, English cricketer
- Peter Higgs, physicist
- Higgs mechanism, an explanation for electroweak symmetry breaking named for Peter Higgs
- Higgs boson, a theoretical elementary particle arising from the Higgs mechanism
- Higgs field, is a postulated quantum field, mediated by the Higgs boson
- John Higgs, Jack Woolley's chauffeur and handyman in BBC Radio 4's daily soap The Archers