Tag: Peter Higgs

• Wednesday, April 10th 2024 - 11:05 UTC

  “God Particle” Nobel prize winner, Professor Higgs has died at 94

  

  The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.

• Thursday, October 10th 2013 - 05:14 UTC

  Higgs boson or ‘God particle’ theorists take the Nobel Prize in Physics

  

  Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, share the prize. In the 1960s, they were among several physicists who proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of the Universe have mass.

• Wednesday, July 4th 2012 - 22:39 UTC

  Discovery of the Higgs boson a key to open the mysteries of the universe

  

  Scientists at Europe's CERN research centre have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs.