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Renowned physicist Peter Higgs - a Nobel Prize winner and famous for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle, which helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang - has died at the age of 94 after a brief illness.
The University of Edinburgh - where physicist Higgs was an honorary professor - confirmed his death on April 8.
Higgs is best known for his pioneering work predicting the masses of subatomic particles. He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Belgian physicist François Englert, for their 1964 work predicting the existence of a particle that gives other particles mass when they interact with them. This particle was named the Higgs boson. But it took nearly 50 years for the existence of the Higgs boson to be confirmed.
In 2012, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that they had finally found the Higgs boson particle using the Large Hadron Collider, a 27km-long tunnel on the Swiss-French border. This was considered one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics in decades.
The Higgs boson is the final missing piece of the standard model, dubbed the "God particle" because it could help scientists explain everything about subatomic particles and natural forces.
Physicist Peter Higgs's work has helped scientists understand one of the most fundamental mysteries of the universe: the Big Bang created something out of nothing 13.8 billion years ago. Without the Higgs's mass, particles could not have clumped together into the matter we interact with every day.
