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    Peter Ware Higgs CH FRS FRSE HonFInstP (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.

  2. Apr 9, 2024 · Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson. He came up with the...

  3. Apr 9, 2024 · Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him (as well as God) and sparked a half-century, worldwide, billion-dollar search for it culminating in ...

  4. Peter Higgs, a giant of British science who came up with the idea of the Higgs boson particle, has died aged 94. He was awarded the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013 for his revolutionary work ...

  5. Apr 8, 2024 · Peter W. Higgs. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013. Born: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Died: 8 April 2024, Edinburgh, Scotland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

  6. Apr 9, 2024 · The Nobel Prize-winning particle physicist Professor Peter Higgs, whose prediction of the Higgs boson helped revolutionise understanding of the universe, has died aged 94.

  7. May 27, 2024 · Peter Higgs was a British physicist who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that is the carrier particle of a field that endows all elementary particles with mass through its interactions with them.