Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94 after a short illness, University of Edinburgh in UK announced last night. He gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.
The physicist gained global recognition in 2012, when he was awarded the Nobel prize, almost 50 years after Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle, which came to be known as the Higgs boson, or the “God particle.”
Higgs was emeritus professor at University of Edinburgh.
