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During a walk in the Scottish Highlands, one of the greats of particle physics had the idea of a lifetime

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 signalled the need for physicists to begin exploring physics beyond parameters they were used to. Higgs spent 50 years of his life searching for a single particle – Higgs Boson – that gives almost all other particles their mass

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What Peter Higgs achieved is nothing short of revolutionary. Despite his first paper on the idea being rejected, he hinted at another article, particle, a type of boson, that might be responsible for particles having mass. His revised 1964 paper, Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons, published after Englert and Brouts, was the first to state the existence of a new particle.

The Nobel Prize winner predicted the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that scientists successfully discovered in 2012, explaining how particles get their mass and underlying a key theory of the universe

Noble prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, responsible for the one the greatest scientific discoveries in the last century, died at the age of 94 .

The professor who proposed the existence of the so-called "God particle" that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, died on Monday following a short illness.

The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the God particle that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.

The 'God particle' or Higgs boson is the particle that is supposed to account for the mass of every other fundamental particle. What does that mean? Here is a look.