Prof Peter Higgs, best known for the Higgs boson has died at the age of 94.
Peter Higgs was born in 1929 and was a brilliant student who won prizes for his science work.
His revolutionary idea in the 1960s sparked a 50-year search for the Holy Grail of physics, which was finally discovered in 2012 by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland.
work on the most basic particle in the cosmos, came to be known as the “Higgs Boson” which inspired the building of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland
The particle, which was nicknamed the ‘God particle’ by the media, was discovered using the Large Hadron Collider Atlas detector under construction in Geneva.
Higgs retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, but continued to watch developments at Cern in Geneva, where scientists were using the Large Hadron Collider to look for the Higgs boson.
The particle accelerator, built at a cost of $10bn, was considered the machine that could prove or disprove Higgs’s theory.
