(Bloomberg) -- Peter Higgs, the British physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 2013 for his discovery decades earlier of a theoretical mechanism to explain the origin of mass in the universe ...

The Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs died Monday at his home in Edinburgh, the University of Edinburgh in United Kingdom confirmed.

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson: Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, share the prize. In the 1960s ...

The University of Edinburgh where Higgs was emeritus professor said he died Monday after a short illness. The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who ...

However, the prize was not awarded directly to the LHC experiments ATLAS and CMS or to CERN itself, but to theoretical physicists François Englert and Peter Higgs. In addition to ATLAS and CMS, there ...