Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist who predicted the Higgs boson, dies at 94

Prof Peter Higgs opens Collider Exhibition at The Science Museum.

Peter Higgs, the theoretical physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, has died at the age of 94.

The University of Edinburgh confirmed the Nobel Prize-winning physicist's April 8 death following a short illness in a statement released Tuesday (April 9). Higgs was a professor emeritus at the university, where he worked beginning in 1960 until his retirement in 1996.