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Washington: Nobel Prize winning scientist Peter Higgs is no more. He breathed his last at the age of 94. Scientist Higgs, who was an emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh, was admitted to the hospital on Monday after his health deteriorated. After being brought home from the hospital, his health again deteriorated and he passes away.
He explained many important mysteries of the world through the existence of the Higgs boson particle. Sharing information about Higgs’ death, the University of Edinburgh said that Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs is no longer among us. He proposed the existence of the so-called ‘God particle’, using his theories to explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.
The mystery of the universe explained through the Higgs particle: According to the New York Times, when Dr. Higgs joined the post of Assistant Professor at the University of Edinburgh in 1964, he was 35 years old. He suggested in 2012 the existence of a new particle that would explain how other particles acquire mass. After the special was discovered to exist, the Higgs received a standing ovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, in Geneva.
Fabiola Gianotti, director general of CERN and former head of the ATLAS experiment, who helped discover the Higgs particle with Peter, said: “Peter was a special person, he had a very disciplined personality. He was a great teacher with great humility, who taught physics very well. Many understood it deeply and shared it with the world.
Higgs was a Member and Companion of Honor of the Royal Society. He spent a long period of his profession at the University of Edinburgh. They established the Higgs Center for Theoretical Physics in his honor in 2012. His wife Jody, a linguistics lecturer, died in 2008. He has two sons, Chris and Johnny, his daughter-in-law Suzanne, and two grandchildren.
