Peter Higgs, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, passed away at the age of 94 in his home in Edinburgh after a brief illness. Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for his theoretical prediction of a mechanism that helps explain the origin of subatomic particle mass.
In 1964, Higgs proposed the existence of a particle that would give mass to others, later dubbed the “god particle,” addressing a fundamental question for physicists about particle mass. His work was later validated by the confirmation of the Higgs boson’s existence at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2011. This discovery was a crucial element in completing the Standard Model, which describes all particles and forces in the universe.
Higgs’s legacy will continue to inspire scientists for generations to come, with his groundbreaking work paving the way for a deeper understanding of the universe. Colleagues and peers remember him as a brilliant scientist and a humble individual whose contributions to the field of physics will be remembered for years to come. The University of Edinburgh and the scientific community at large mourn
