Peter Higgs

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh.

His theory, contingent on what became known as the Higgs boson, made the Standard Model of Particle Physics possible.

The renowned scientist won the Nobel prize for Physics in 2013.

Nobel Prize winner saw his work confirmed by experiments at the Cern particle accelerator.

Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who theorized the “God particle,” has died.

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the ...

Theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atoms.

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big ...

The renowned scientist came up with revolutionary ideas in the 1960s, sparking a 50-year search for evidence.

Physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of an undetected particle in the universe changed science and was vindicated by a Nobel prize-winning discovery half a ...

The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday following a short illness.

Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson.

Celebrated theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, best known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94 after a short illness.

Higgs predicted the ...

Professor Peter Higgs died peacefully at home on Monday 8 April following a short illness, University of Edinburgh confirms.

The Nobel Prize-winning theorist's prediction of the Higgs boson sparked a half-century quest of discovery that reshaped physics—and our understanding of ...