Nobel laureate Peter Higgs, who discovered ‘God Particle’, dies at 94
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Physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, which earned him a Nobel Prize, died at the age of 94, in response to the University of Edinburgh on Tuesday.
The college, the place Higgs was an emeritus professor, mentioned he breathed his final on Monday “at dwelling following a brief sickness”.
In 1964, Higgs put ahead the idea of the Higgs boson, a breakthrough that was solely confirmed practically half a century later when it was detected at the Large Hadron Collider.
His principle pertained to the mechanism by which subatomic particles, the basic parts of matter, purchase mass.
This theoretical framework constitutes a basic facet of the Standard Model, elucidating the development of the bodily world.
Recognising his seminal contributions, Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, collectively with Francois Englert of Belgium.
Peter Mathieson, the Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh University, hailed Higgs as a unprecedented determine, describing him as a profoundly gifted scientist “whose insights have deepened our comprehension of the universe”.
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