The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94. Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle — the so-called Higgs boson — in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particle’s existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider.
FILE - Britain’s Professor Peter Higgs smiles during a press conference in Edinburgh , Scotland, on Oct. 11, 2013. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, alongside Francois Englert of Belgium. Professor Peter Higgs at the Science Museum, London on Dec. 11, 2013. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work, alongside Francois Englert of Belgium. FILE - Britain’s Professor Peter Higgs smiles during a press conference in Edinburgh , Scotland, on Oct. 11, 2013.
Higgs’ theory related to how subatomic particles that are the building blocks of matter get their mass. This theoretical understanding is a central part of the so-called Standard Model, which describes the physics of how the world is constructed. Edinburgh University Vice Chancellor Peter Mathieson said Higgs, who was born in Newcastle, was “a remarkable individual – a truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us.”
Finding corroboration wasn’t easy. It took more than two decades, thousands of scientists and mountains of data from trillions of colliding protons.
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