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Quantum physicist and discoverer of the Higgs Boson particle, Peter Higgs, has died aged 94.

Peter Higgs, a physicist whose idea of a mysterious particle that could help explain why we all exist ended with cheers and champagne, has died.

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called god particle that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday.

Professor Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, has died aged 94.

The Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border tracked down the particle that has his name.

Higgs shared his Nobel prize with Belgian physicist Francois Englert for proposing the existence of what became known as the Higgs boson particle | World News

Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle - the so-called Higgs boson - in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particles existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider.

The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94

Peter Higgs’ theory related to how subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter get their mass.