Category: Peter Higgs

In 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN made a significant discovery: the Higgs boson particle. This particle, predicted by physicist Peter Higgs in 1964, plays a crucial role in explaining how everything in the universe obtains mass. Higgs theorized the existence of this particle as a fundamental…

British physicist Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94, as announced by the University of Edinburgh. He was best known for his groundbreaking theoretical work on the Higgs boson, which explained how the Universe has mass. Higgs had been a professor at the university for nearly five…

British physicist Peter Higgs, renowned for his ground-breaking theoretical work explaining how the Universe has mass, has passed away at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh, where he was a professor for nearly five decades, announced his peaceful passing at home on Monday 8 April after a brief…