Higgs bosonNobel PrizephysicsNobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, known for proposing the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has passed away at 94.
Peter Higgs, a Nobel laureate whose work on the Higgs boson particle fundamental to understanding the mass of subatomic particles, has died at 94, according to the University of Edinburgh. His theory played a crucial role in the Standard Model of particle physics.