Peter Higgs, Physicist Who Discovered the ‘God Particle,’ Dies at 94 NYT: Science By: Dennis Overbye 10 April 2024 at 10:36 The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles. © Peter Macdiarmid/Getty ImagesPeter Higgs in 2013. His suggestion of a previously undetected particle in physics led to a billion-dollar search for it and a Nobel Prize for him.
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