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希格斯

Mandarin · pinyin Xī gé sī

Higgs (name)
Peter Higgs (1929-), British theoretical physicist, one proposer of the Higgs mechanism or Higgs boson to explain the mass of elementary particles

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希: xī · rare; hope, expect, strive for
格: gé · pattern, standard, form; style
斯: sī · this, thus, such; to lop off; emphatic particle

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1–2–1 · Xi1 ge2 si1

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a transliteration of the English surname Higgs, notably borne by Peter Ware Higgs (1929–2024), a British physicist

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