- Peter Higgs, Who Discovered ‘God Particle’, died at the age of 94.
- British physicist Peter Higgs passed away at the age of 94.
- He gave a theory on the existence of the Higgs boson particle, also known as the “God’s particle”.
- He served as a professor for nearly five decades at the University of Edinburgh.
- God’s particle was discovered during experiments on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland on July 4, 2012.
- It is one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the modern era.
- He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 with François Englert for their theory that predicted the particle’s existence.
- Higgs was born in Newcastle in 1929 and studied at King’s College, University of London.
