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Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson. Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics – a remarkable theory which explains the visible universe at the most fundamental level. Alongside Robert Brout and François Englert, and building on the work of a generation of physicists, Higgs postulated the existence of the Brout-Engler...

“I was facing audiences who thought I was a crackpot.”

Professor Peter Higgs theorised about the particle and won a Nobel Prize for his work in 2013.

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 British physicist, who has died aged 94, predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in the 1960s. The British physicist, who has died aged 94, predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in the 1960s.

Renowned physicist Peter Higgs, whose groundbreaking work reshaped understanding of the cosmos, has passed away at 94. Lets look at his life dedicated to unraveling mysteries of the universe.

View of an ATLAS collision event in which a candidate W boson decays into a muon and a neutrino. The reconstructed tracks of the charged particles in the inner part of the ATLAS detector are shown as orange lines. The energy deposits in the detector’s calorimeters are shown as yellow boxes. The identified muon is shown as a red line. The missing transverse momentum associated with the neutrino is shown as a green dashed line. (Image: ATLAS/CERN) The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 slotte...

The Nobel Prize-winning theorist’s prediction of the Higgs boson sparked a half-century quest of discovery that reshaped physics—and our understanding of the universe

On April 8, 2024, Peter Higgs passed away. Pioneering the discovery of the Higgs boson, the mark the theoretical physicist has left on physics is immense.

Renowned for his work in particle discovery, Prof Peter Higgs was a joint winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics.