J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ<p>⚫ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PeterHiggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PeterHiggs</span></a>, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who proposed a new particle known as the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HiggsBoson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HiggsBoson</span></a>, has died</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Higgs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Higgs</span></a>, 94, who was awarded the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NobelPrize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NobelPrize</span></a> for <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> 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 <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Edinburgh</span></a> on Monday</p><p>After a series of experiments, which began in earnest in 2008, ⏩</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/science/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a></p>