Quigg's contributions range over many topics in particle physics. With
Benjamin Lee and
H. B. Thacker in 1977 he identified the uppermost theoretical mass scale for the
Higgs boson. In 1984 he coauthored "Supercollider Physics" (with
Estia Eichten,
Kenneth Lane and
Ian Hinchliffe), which has strongly influenced the quest for future discoveries at hadron colliders, such as the Fermilab
Tevatron, the
SSC, and the
LHC at
CERN. He is also author of
Gauge Theories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions. He has made many other significant contributions to the study of the spectroscopy of heavy-light mesons, signatures for the production of heavy quarks and quarkonium, and the study of ultrahigh-energy neutrino interactions. He is an international lecturer and public speaker, and has been Editor of the
Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science. With Robert N. Cahn, he wrote
Grace in All Simplicity, subtitled "Beauty, Truth, and Wonders on the Path to the Higgs Boson and New Laws of Naturea", a popular book on the history and development of the
Standard Model of particle physics, ==Awards and honors==