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to Professor Kibble CBE FRS who won the Royal Society Royal Medal
Congratulations to Professor Tom Kibble CBE FRS who has won the Royal Medal from The Royal Society. He won this for his theories of symmetry-breaking in quantum field theory, with diverse applications to elementary particle masses, vortex formation in Helium 3 and structure formation in the early universe.
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