Peter Higgs<\/a>, responsible for the one the greatest scientific discoveries in the last century, died at the age of 94 .<\/p>\nPeter Higgs’s ground-breaking work helped explain how everything in the universe has mass.<\/p>\n
In 1964, he theorised the existence of the Higgs Boson, a fundamental force-carrying particle associated with the Higgs field. The Higgs field is a quantum field that gives mass to particles and exists throughout the universe. In the Higgs field, the Higgs boson acts as a wave and helps give mass to other fundamental particles through its interaction in terms of its vibration (oscillation).<\/p>\n
His theory was proved 50 years later when researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle accelerator in the world, discovered the particle in 2012. Mr Higgs was awarded the Noble prize a year later.<\/p>\n
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