Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday.
After a series of experiments which began in earnest in 2008, his theory was proven by physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland in 2012; the Nobel prize was shared with François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist whose work in 1964 also contributed directly to the discovery.
Someone who’s life should not be ‘tldr’d’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Higgs
tldr: science
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It’s always a sad thing to hear but 94 and leaving a mark that puts him up there with the greatest minds of all time. Bravo, sir. Bravo!
He did a lot of good work. I also feel happy knowing that we actually found the particle physically while he was still alive. That has got to be satisfying. Rest easy, Higgs. ❤️
I wonder if his funeral will have mass
Named after Higgs - the particle of God that permeates all existence
Did he tell anyone where the boson is before he passed?
@Slovene @tardigrada I’m sad he’s gone–He was a hero of mine–but even the bosons mourn for they have Mass
