Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called 'God particle' that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94.
Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle the so-called Higgs boson in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particle's existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider.
Edinburgh University said his groundbreaking 1964 paper demonstrated how 'elemental particles achieved mass through the existence of a new sub-atomic particle which became known as the Higgs boson.'
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