The world mourns the loss of the legendary Nobel laureate in physics, Peter Higgs, who has passed away at the age of 94. The University of Edinburgh, where Higgs served as a professor, confirmed this sad news.
Higgs bid farewell to this world peacefully at his residence on Monday, April 8, following a brief illness. Describing him as a “truly gifted scientist,” the Director of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Peter Matheson, highlighted how Higgs’ innovative ideas enhanced our comprehension of the universe.
Born in 1929, Peter Higgs pursued his passion for physics at the Royal College in London. His groundbreaking work in the 1960s led to the discovery of a mechanism that allowed particles carrying the weak interaction force to gain mass without defying any fundamental laws of physics. This mechanism foretold the existence of a massive particle with zero electric charge, famously known as the “Higgs boson,” which plays a crucial role in bestowing mass upon other particles. The existence of this elusive particle was finally confirmed in 2012, thanks to the efforts at the Large Hadron Collider. In recognition of his remarkable contributions, Peter Higgs, along with Belgian physicist Francois Englert, was honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.
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