"Renowned Physicist Peter Higgs Passes Away at 94"

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"Renowned Physicist Peter Higgs Passes Away at 94"
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Peter Higgs, the physicist who predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle," and sparked a decades-long search for it, has passed away at the age of 94. His prediction of a new particle in 1964 led to the development of the Standard Model, encapsulating human knowledge about elementary particles. Higgs, a modest man who shunned fame, received a Nobel Prize in 2013 after the particle's discovery at CERN in 2012.

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