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Peter Ware Higgs (29 May 1929 – 8 April 2024) was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles. In 1964, Higgs was the single author of one of the three milestone papers published in Physical Review Letters (PRL) that proposed that spontaneous symmetry breaking in electroweak theory could explain the origin of mass of elementary particles in general and of the W and Z bosons in particular.
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Peter Higgs, who proposed existence of Higgs boson particle, has died at 94, university says
Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle,' has died
Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed the existence of the 'God particle,' dies at 94