⚫ #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, ⏩
Mit seiner Theorie zur Masse von Elementarteilchen wurde er weltberühmt: Jetzt ist Physik-Nobelpreisträger Peter Higgs im Alter von 94 Jahren gestorben. Sein Ruhm war dem Briten stets unangenehm.