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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-Englert-Higgs (BEH) field. Alone among known fundamental fields, the BEH field is “turned on” througho...

“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.