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Peter Higgs, physicist who theorised the Higgs boson, has died aged 94
Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles get their mass won him the Nobel prize in 2013 and formed a key ingredient ...
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Physicist Peter Higgs, Who Prompted a Decades-Long Search for a Tiny Particle, Dies at 94
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a fundamental particle that underlies matter and life in the universe, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh confirms in a statement.
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Higgs boson or ‘God particle’ theorists take the Nobel Prize in Physics
Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, share the prize. In the 1960s ...
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“God Particle” Nobel prize winner, Professor Higgs has died at 94
The University of Edinburgh where Higgs was emeritus professor said he died Monday after a short illness. The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who ...
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The Standard Model Bosons
These four fundamental forces exist between fermions (quarks and leptons). They arise from the exchange of bosons. Bosons are the 'force carrying' or 'force-mediating' particles. If a fermion ...