Tom W. B. Kibble Scientist
Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble, FRS, (born 1932) is a British scientist and senior research investigator at The Blackett Laboratory, at Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are in quantum field theory, especially the interface between high-energy particle physics and cosmology. He has worked on mechanisms of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and the topological defects that can be formed. His seminal paper on cosmic strings introduced the phenomenon into modern cosmology. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh (MA 1955, BSc 1956, PhD 1958).
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