Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who theorized the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at age 94. His work was fundamental to the Standard Model of physics and was confirmed by the Large Hadron Collider in 2012.
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Higgs' discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of how matter acquires mass and how the universe formed after the Big Bang.
Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called ”God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday.
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