Nobel Physics laureate Peter Higgs, who showed how particles help connect the universe, died at his home in Edinburgh on April 9, The Guardian reports.
Peter Higgs, who proposed a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 95. Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for his 1964 work showing how the boson helped bring the universe together by giving particles mass.
After a series of experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the physicists proved their theory.
A Fellow of the Royal Society and honorary fellow, Higgs spent much of his professional life at the University of Edinburgh, which founded the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics in his honor in 2012.
Professor Peter Matheson, Chancellor of the University, said: “Peter Higgs was an extraordinary individual: a truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination enriched our knowledge of the world around us.”
Professor Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN and former director of the Atlas experiment, which helped discover the Higgs particle in 2012, said that in addition to his outstanding contributions to particle physics, Peter Higgs was a very special person, a man of a rare humility. and a wonderful teacher who explained physics in a very simple and profound way.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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