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    Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE HonFInstP (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, [7] [8] and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

  2. Apr 9, 2024 · Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson. He came up with the revolutionary...

  3. Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, Nobelist Who Predicted the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94. The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far...

  4. Apr 9, 2024 · The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94.

  5. Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work ...

  6. Apr 12, 2024 · During a few weeks in the summer of 1964, Peter Higgs, a theoretical physicist at the University of Edinburgh, UK, wrote two short papers outlining his ideas for a mechanism that could give...

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  8. Jul 4, 2022 · A 93-year-old British theoretical physicist who won half of a Nobel prize in 2013, he is notoriously shy, inaccessible by e-mail and mobile phone, self-deprecating and averse to the...

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