British theoretical physicist Professor Peter Higgs, renowned for predicting mass-giving Higgs’s field in 1964 passed away on 8 April 2024 following a short illness. He was 94.
It took about half a century before existence of fundamental mass-giving Higgs field could be experimentally confirmed in 2012 when CERN researchers at he Large Hadron Collider (LHC) reported discovery of a new particle, consistent with the Higgs boson.
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