Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Behind ‘Higgs Boson’ Particle Dies at 94
The Nobel prize winner Peter Higgs, a pioneering physicist who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that largely explained how matter formed after the Big Bang, died on Monday. He was 94.
The University of Edinburgh announced Higgs’ death, saying in a statement that he died “peacefully at home following a short illness.”
Higgs had worked as an emeritus professor at the university up until his death, highlighting his dedication to physics that spanned more than seven decades.