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The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson, has died at 94.
The scientist predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 1964.
Peter Higgs died “peacefully at home following a short illness,” the University of Edinburgh said.
The scientist predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 1964.
British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle -- the so-called Higgs boson -- jointly earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged 94, the University