Peter Higgs, the British physicist known for having theorized, in the 1960s, the existence of the boson that bears his name, whose presence was later confirmed in 2012 by experiments at the LHC accelerator, has died at the age of 94 following a short illness. of CERN in Geneva.
When the news was announced he was sitting in the auditorium, visibly moved. Precisely for this result, in 2013, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Peter Ware Higgs was born on 29 May 1929 in Newcastle. He was a member of the English Royal Society and since 1996 was professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh, which broke the news of his passing.
For his notable contributions to theoretical physics, Higgs was decorated with many other prizes and recognitions, including the Dirac medal and the Wolf prize for physics, which the scientist, however, refused to withdraw, declaring that he did not share the aggressive policy shown by Israel towards Palestine (the Wolf Prize is managed by an Israeli foundation).
His most famous theory, which aimed to explain the origin of the mass of elementary particles, is the so-called ‘Higgs mechanism’, or ‘Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism’, named following the three researchers who theorized it independently (Belgian physicist François Englert received the Nobel together with Higgs in 2013).
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2024-04-10 07:51:12
