Peter Higgs
Theoretical Physicist
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Peter Higgs British theoretical physicist who in 1964 predicted the existence of a fundamental particle — later called the Higgs boson — that gives all matter its mass. The particle was confirmed by CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, nearly 50 years after his prediction. Nobel Prize in Physics 2013. A remarkably humble scientist who rarely gave interviews.
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British theoretical physicist who in 1964 predicted the existence of a fundamental particle — later called the Higgs boson — that gives all matter its mass. The particle was confirmed by CERN's Large Hadron Collider in 2012, nearly 50 years after his prediction. Nobel Prize in Physics 2013. A remarkably humble scientist who rarely gave interviews.
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Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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