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Professor Peter Higgs speaking to the media at a press conference in Edinburgh after being awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013Professor Peter Higgs, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 and gave his name to the Higgs boson particle, passed away on Monday, April 8 aged 94.
“His pioneering work has motivated thousands of scientists, and his legacy will continue to inspire many more for generations to come.” According to Cern’s website: “You and everything around you are made of particles. But when the universe began, no particles had mass; they all sped around at the speed of light.
It goes on: “In our current description of nature, every particle is a wave in a field. The most familiar example of this is light: light is simultaneously a wave in the electromagnetic field and a stream of particles called photons.
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