Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, share the prize. In the 1960s ...

Groundbreaking theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has died at age 94. Higgs’s work explaining how elementary particles get their mass won him the Nobel prize in 2013 and formed a key ingredient ...

Peter Higgs, the “truly gifted scientist” who demonstrated the existence of the subatomic particle, has died aged 94. Higgs, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University, won a Nobel prize ...

Except for one outlier: the Higgs boson. Named after Peter Higgs, the British physicist who predicted its existence in the 1960s, this particle is the final piece of the puzzle, and it’s a doozy. The ...

The University of Edinburgh where Higgs was emeritus professor said he died Monday after a short illness. The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who ...