Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Peter Higgs" in English language version.
Dr Lewis Ryder, (...), who was supervised by Professor Higgs,
initially under the supervision of Charles Coulson and subsequently Christopher Longuet-Higgins
The name has stuck, but makes Higgs wince and raises the hackles of other theorists. "I wish he hadn't done it," he says. "I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious."
initially under the supervision of Charles Coulson and subsequently Christopher Longuet-Higgins
Dr Lewis Ryder, (...), who was supervised by Professor Higgs,
The name has stuck, but makes Higgs wince and raises the hackles of other theorists. "I wish he hadn't done it," he says. "I have to explain to people it was a joke. I'm an atheist, but I have an uneasy feeling that playing around with names like that could be unnecessarily offensive to people who are religious."