Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Peter Higgs Dies at 94

Peter Higgs, a renowned physicist and University of Edinburgh alumnus, passed away peacefully at home on April 8, following a short illness. He was 94 years old. Higgs is best known for his prediction of the existence of a new particle that came to be named after him. This theory, which he proposed in 1964 while working at the university, related to how subatomic particles acquire mass.