Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh
Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who discovered a new particle known as the Higgs boson, has died.
Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize 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.
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