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Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died

Nobel-prize winning physicist who showed how particle helped bind universe together died at home in Edinburgh

Higgs, 94, who was awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2013 for his work in 1964 showing how the boson helped bind the universe together by giving particles their mass, died at home in Edinburgh on Monday. After a series of experiments which began in earnest in 2008, his theory was proven by physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland in 2012; the Nobel prize was shared with François Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist whose work in 1964 also contributed directly to the discovery. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Higgs leaves two sons, Chris and Jonny, and two grandchildren.

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