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Peter Higgs: science mourns giant of particle physics

The British physicist, who has died aged 94, predicted the existence of the Higgs boson in the 1960s.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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Professor Peter Higgs poses for a portrait at an Edinburgh University press conference in 2012.

Colleagues remember Peter Higgs as an inspirational scientist, who remained humble despite his fame. Credit: Graham Clark/Alamy

Few scientists have come into as much fame in recent years as British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, the namesake of the boson that was discovered in 2012, who died on 8 April, aged 94.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-01069-6

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  • Correction 11 April 2024: An earlier version of this article stated that Kyle Cranmer was a member of the CMS team. He was in fact part of the ATLAS collaboration.

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  1. Higgs, P. Phys. Rev. Lett. 13, 508–509 (1964).

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