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Peter Ware Higgs (29.05.1929-08.04.2024)Peter Higgs, a Giant of Particle Physics, Dies at 94APRIL 10, 2024 BY DAVIDE CASTELVECCHI & NATURE MAGAZINE
The Nobel Prize-winning theorist’s prediction of the Higgs boson sparked a half-century quest of discovery that reshaped physics—and our understanding of the universe
Colleagues remember Peter Higgs as an inspirational scientist, who remained humble despite his fame. Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Imageshttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/peter-higgs-a-giant-of-particle-physics-dies-at-94/Peter Higgs, Nobelist Who Predicted the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94By Dennis Overbye Published April 9, 2024 Updated April 10, 2024
The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.
Peter Higgs in 2013. His suggestion of a previously undetected particle in physics led to a billion-dollar search for it and a Nobel Prize for him.Credit...Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPeter Higgs, who predicted the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him (as well as God) and sparked a half-century, worldwide, billion-dollar search for it culminating in champagne in 2012 and a Nobel Prize a year later, died on Monday at home in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was 94.
The cause was a blood disorder, said Alan Walker, his close friend and fellow physicist at the University of Edinburgh, where Dr. Higgs was an emeritus professor.
Dr. Higgs was a 35-year-old assistant professor at the university in 1964 when he suggested the existence of a new particle that would explain how other particles acquire mass. The Higgs boson, also known as “the God particle,” would become the keystone of a suite of theories known as the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles and the forces by which they shaped nature and the universe.
Dr. Higgs was a modest man who eschewed the trappings of fame and preferred the outdoors. He didn’t own a television or use email or a cellphone. For years he relied on Dr. Walker to act as his “digital seeing-eye dog,” in the words of a former student. (...)
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