Peter Higgs
British physicist and Nobel Prize winner (1929–2024)
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Updated 2026-05-29
British physicist who predicted the Higgs boson in 1964 and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for explaining how subatomic particles get their mass. Edinburgh professor whose particle became one of the most hunted things in physics.
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Peter Ware Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, professor at the University of Edinburgh, and Nobel laureate in Physics for his work on the mass of subatomic particles.
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