Peter Higgs

[ad_1] Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for describing the Higgs boson (God particle)—a theoretical particle that explains where mass comes from and advances man’s understanding of how the world is constructed—died on April 8 at the age of 94 after a short illness. Confirming the death of the eminent scientist The University of Edinburgh posted on the microblogging platform X (formerly…

[ad_1] Peter Higgs poses in front of an image of a detector of the Large Hadron Collider, November 12, 2013, in London. | Photo Credit: Toby Melville/Reuters The day the physicist Peter Higgs passed away, April 8, Google search results were rife with headlines that the man who proposed the “God particle” was no more. Dr Higgs was famously private, having stayed away from the press for most of…

[ad_1] British scientist Peter Higgs poses in front of a photographic image of the Atlas detector at the Science Museum in London in 2013. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday “peacefully at home following a…