Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate in physics, has died

Peter Higgs, Nobel laureate in physics, has died

Peter Higgs was 94 years old. He was the one who predicted the existence of a new particle that took his name.

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Nobel laureate in physics Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94, according to a statement published on the website of the University of Edinburgh.

“It has been learned that Professor Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94. He passed away at his home on Monday, April 8, after a short illness“, the text says.

In 1964, Higgs predicted the discovery of a particle that determines the presence of mass in matter. The particle was later named the Higgs boson.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to François Englert and Peter Higgs “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to the understanding of the origin of the mass of subatomic particles“.

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