Peter Higgs, the Physicist Who Changed Our Theory of the Universe, Died, Age 94

par Alissar Boulos, 12/04 16:59 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Nobel Prize Peter Higgs Physicist

Peter Higgs, the Nobel-winning physicist who proposed the existence of the “God particle,” or simply the Higgs boson, died on Tuesday, April 9th. The scientist came up with a revolutionary idea in 1964 explaining why atoms — the basic building blocks of the universe — have mass, elucidating how matter formed after the Bing Bang. He ...