RIP Peter Higgs, who laid foundation for the Higgs boson in the 1960s
Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert.
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Higgs shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"
Theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atoms
His 1964 theory of a mass-giving particle earned him the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics
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