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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
His theory, contingent on what became known as the Higgs boson, made the Standard Model of Particle Physics possible.
UK News: Peter Higgs, known for predicting the Higgs boson, died at 94 in Edinburgh. His Nobel Prize-winning work was announced by the University of Edinburgh.
Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a century later, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh said on Tuesday.
In 2013, the British scientist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for having predicted as early as 1964 the existence of a particle finally discovered in 2012 at CERN.