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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.