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Remembering physicist Peter Higgs

Remembering physicist Peter Higgs

Science Weekly vor 2 Jahren

The Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs has died aged 94. Higgs theorised the existence of the Higgs boson particle, part of an attempt to explain why the building blocks of the universe have mass, five decades before its existence was confi

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The Nobel prize-winning British physicist Peter Higgs has died aged
94. The confirmation in 2012 of the existence of the Higgs boson
particle, five decades after Higgs had first theorised its
existence, paved the way for his 2013 Nobel win. Nicknamed ‘the god
particle’, the Higgs boson was part of an attempt to explain why
the building blocks of the universe have mass. Ian Sample and
Madeleine Finlay look back on the life and legacy of a giant of
science. Help support our independent journalism at
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