⚫ #PeterHiggs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who proposed a new particle known as the #HiggsBoson, has died
#Higgs, 94, who was awarded the #NobelPrize 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
After a series of experiments, which began in earnest in 2008, ⏩
↪ his theory was proven by physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider #LHC at #Cern in #Switzerland in 2012; the Nobel prize was shared with #FrançoisEnglert, a Belgian theoretical physicist whose work in 1964 also contributed directly to the discovery.