Remembering Peter Higgs, Fascinating Facts About the Nobel Laureate Behind the God Particle Theory

Remembering Peter Higgs: After a short illness, Peter Higgs, the European scientist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013, died on April 8 at the age of 94 after describing the Higgs boson (God particle). The Higgs boson explains where mass comes from and advances mankind's understanding of the world.

Professor Peter Higgs passed away at the age of 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on the microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter).

Physicist Peter Higgs was a scientist with great vision and imagination, said university principal Peter Mathieson.

His pioneering work will inspire thousands of scientists for generations to come."

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His original prediction of the Higgs boson was made in 1964, but it was almost 50 years before scientists were able to confirm it with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012. In 2013, he and Belgian theoretical physicist Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in Physics together.

According to BBC, he struggled to publish his theory in 1964 because no one understood it.

His mother is Scottish and his father, a BBC sound engineer, is English. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.

A Japanese-born theorist and Nobel Prize laureate Yoichiro Nambu from the University of Chicago was credited with inspiring Higgs' work with spontaneous symmetry. Higgs, inspired by Nambu's work, devised his own theory in 1964, explaining how massless particles can give rise to particles with mass (Higgs mechanism).

Editors of Physics Letters rejected Higgs's paper, which described a theoretical model (now called the Higgs mechanism) as "of no obvious relevance to physics."

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