Physicist Peter Higgs Dies At 94 After Discovery of ‘God Particle’

Peter Higgs, a British physicist known for his ground-breaking theoretical work on the Higgs boson, has passed away at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh, where he had been a professor for nearly five decades, confirmed his death and described him as a great teacher and mentor. Higgs’s family has requested privacy during this time of mourning.

Higgs’s theoretical work helped explain how the Universe has mass, a significant contribution to physics that earned him a place alongside renowned scientists like Albert Einstein and Max Planck. His theory of the mass-giving particle, later known as the Higgs boson or the “God particle,” was validated by experiments at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012, leading to Higgs and Belgian physicist Francois Englert being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. Peter Higgs is remembered as a gifted scientist whose vision and imagination enriched our understanding of the world.

His pioneering work has inspired countless scientists and will continue to do so for generations to come.