Peter Higgs, physicist behind Higgs boson particle, recalled as 'truly gifted scientist'

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.

Peter Higgs, physicist behind Higgs boson particle, recalled as 'truly gifted scientist'
Man in front of photo of an Atlas detector

Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.