Late physicist’s Nobel Prize medal donated to university where he had key idea

Professor Peter Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 (AB Alexander Mahmoud/PA) -

The late Professor Peter Higgs has gifted his Nobel Prize medal to the university where he proposed a ground-breaking idea that would change scientists’ understanding of the universe.

Prof Higgs was a researcher at the University of Edinburgh in 1964 when he predicted the existence of a new particle, also dubbed the “God particle”, which is now seen as fundamental to the creation of the universe.