Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, renowned for proposing the existence of the “God particle,” the Higgs boson, has passed away at the age of 94, Associated Press reports.
His groundbreaking work, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in 1964, revolutionized our understanding of how matter forms after the Big Bang. Higgs’ theoretical contribution helped explain how particles acquire mass, a fundamental aspect of the universe’s structure. It took nearly five decades before the Higgs boson’s existence could be confirmed, with scientists at CERN announcing the discovery in 2012 using the Large Hadron Collider.
Higgs, described as a gifted scientist, spent much of his career at the University of Edinburgh, where he retired in 1996. Higgs, alongside Francois Englert, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for their work. His legacy continues to inspire future generations of scientists.
