Milan Kundera vs Peter Higgs
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Compare the life timelines of Milan Kundera (1929–2023) and Peter Higgs (1929–2024) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 94 years, from 1929 to 2023.
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Milan Kundera (1929–2023)
- — Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia Verified
- — Studied at Charles University and the Film and TV School (FAMU) in Prague Verified
- — Expelled from the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia for the first time Verified
- — Published his first novel, The Joke (Žert) Verified
- — Married Věra Hrabánková Verified
- — Expelled from the Communist Party a second time and banned from publishing Verified
- — Emigrated to France Verified
- — Stripped of Czechoslovak citizenship; became a French citizen in 1981 Verified
- — Published The Unbearable Lightness of Being Verified
- — Died in Paris Verified
Peter Higgs (1929–2024)
- — Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England Verified
- — Graduated with first-class honours in physics from King's College London Verified
- — Earned PhD in molecular physics from King's College London Verified
- — Took up a lectureship at the University of Edinburgh Verified
- — Married Jody Williamson Verified
- — Published papers proposing the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson Verified
- — Appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Edinburgh Verified
- — Higgs boson discovered at CERN Verified
- — Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics Verified
- — Died in Edinburgh, Scotland Verified