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Peter Higgs, the father of God Particle, dies at 94: All about the Nobel laureate
Peter Higgs passed away peacefully at home on Monday 8 April following a short illness," the Scottish university, where he had been a professor for nearly five decades, said in a statement.
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British physicist Peter Higgs, whose theory of a mass-giving particle - the so-called Higgs boson - earned him the Nobel Prize for Physics, has died aged 94, the University of Edinburgh announced on Tuesday.
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Peter Higgs passed away peacefully at home on April 8 following a short illness," the Scottish university, where he had been a professor for nearly five decades, said in a statement.
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The Scottish university stated him as "a great teacher and mentor, inspiring generations of young scientists".
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Higgs used ground-breaking theoretical work to help explain how the universe has mass, thus resolving one of the greatest puzzles in physics and earning him a place alongside Albert Einstein and Max Planck in textbooks.
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Higgs 1964 theory of a mass-giving particle, which became known as the Higgs boson or the 'God particle', jointly won him and Belgian physicist Francois Englert the 2013 physics Nobel Prize.
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Born in 1929 in Newcastle, northwest England, Higgs graduated in 1950 with First Class Honours in Physics from King's College London.
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By 1954, he had been awarded a Masters degree and a PhD, and soon opened his links with the University of Edinburgh by becoming a senior research fellow. After decades of research there and elsewhere, he would in 1996 become Professor Emeritus at the university.
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Higgs received numerous academic honours over the years, and a host of honorary degrees, including from the University of Cambridge.
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Britain made him a Companion of Honour in the 2013 New Year Honours list, handed out for service of conspicuous national importance.
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