Peter Higgs, the scientist who predicted the existence of the boson, died

The British scientist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics Peter Higgs, who predicted the existence of the boson particle, has died. His death was reported by Edinburgh University, where Higgs was an honorary professor.

“It became known that Professor Peter Higgs died at the age of 94
years He passed away peacefully at home on Monday, April 8, after a short illness,” the university’s website said.

In 1964, Higgs assumed the existence of a new particle – a boson. Almost half a century later, this was practically confirmed during research at the Large Hadron Collider. The particle itself was finally named after the British physicist.

In 2013, Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize together with the Belgian Francois Engler, with whom he made a prediction about the existence of the boson. In the justification of the decision to award the prize, it was said – for “theoretical prediction of the mechanism that helps to understand the origin of the mass of subatomic particles, the existence of which was proved by the discovery of the predicted elementary particle in the CERN Large Hadron Collider.”

Higgs was also awarded prizes and medals for achievements in the field of theoretical physics. In particular, he is a laureate of the Dirac medal awarded by the Institute of Physics in London, as well as the prize in the field of particle physics and high-energy physics of the European Physical Society. He was also a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a member of the Royal Society of London.