Tom Kibble Chennai physicist whose role is crucial in theory of Higgs Boson died on thursday. He is 83 years old and prof. Kibble is working with Blackett Laboratory at Imperial College.

“After Peter Higgs formulated his ground-breaking mechanism for the [simpler] Abelian gauge theories, in 1964, Tom Kibble came up with a more general version for non-Abelian gauge theories, in 1967. This immediately led Weinberg to make the connection and postulate the Higgs Mechanism. Kibble’s contribution was crucial in making Weinberg see the connection,” says G. Rajasekaran, leading particle physicist from Chennai.

Prof. Kibble was awarded and honoured several times including the Order if British EMpire and Albert Einstein Medal. It is surprising that he is not awarded Nobel prize in year 2013 for his discovery of Higgs Boson which reached Peter Higgs and Francois Englebert and worried them. Prof. Kibble done great work in cosmic strings.

“While Professor [Walter] Kibble, with a Mathematics Tripos (Cambridge University), and Doctorate in Statistics (Edinburgh), contributed to the growth of the Mathematics Department in the college, Janet served as the first warden of the women’s hostel in Guindy,” Mr. Kalapati said.