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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Severin Carrell and Ian Sample

Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94

Prof Peter Higgs in his old office at Edinburgh University with a description of the Higgs model, written by him on the blackboard.
Prof Peter Higgs in his office at Edinburgh University in 2007 with a description of the Higgs model on the blackboard behind him. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who proposed a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died.

Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday.

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