Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs dies aged 94
The scientist predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 1964.
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The scientist predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle in 1964.
Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.
His theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later
Higgs predicted the existence of the Higgs boson particle, helping explain how matter formed after the Big Bang. His death at 94 was announced by the University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor.
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