Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous #Higgsboson. Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model (SM) of particle #physics – a remarkable theory which explains the visible universe at the most fundamental level.
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