Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies at 94

Nobel Prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs dies at age of 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on Tuesday. He dies peacefully at home following a short sickness.

Known for his path breaking discovery of an undetected particle of Higgs boson at the CERN research centre near Geneva was recognized as the biggest advance in space science of over three decades.

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After being vindicated by a Nobel committee almost half a century later, Peter Higgs told Reuters, “For me personally it is just the confirmation of something I did 48 years ago, and it is very satisfying to be proved right in some way,” adding, “At the beginning, I had no expectation that I would still be alive when it happened.”

Popularly known as the “Brout-Englert-Higgs” mechanism, won Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert the Nobel prize in physics in 2013.

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