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Peter Higgs, Physicist Who Shed Light on Dark Matter, Dies at 94
- He won the 2013 Nobel Prize for theoretical research on matter
- His theory proposed in 1964 was corroborated by CERN in 2012
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Peter Higgs, the British physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his discovery decades earlier of a theoretical mechanism to explain the origin of mass in the universe, has died. He was 94.
He died on April 8 at his home, according to the University of Edinburgh, where he was professor emeritus. Higgs “was a remarkable individual — a truly gifted scientist whose vision and imagination have enriched our knowledge of the world that surrounds us,” said Peter Mathieson, the university’s principal and vice chancellor.