Physicist peter higgs biography of mahatma gandhi
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Peter Higgs obituary: the shy man who changed our understanding of the Universe
- Author, Georgina Rannard
- Role, BBC News Climate & Science
Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson.
He came up with the revolutionary idea in the 1960s when he wanted to explain why the basic building blocks of the Universe - atoms - have mass.
His theory about what binds the Universe together, which other scientists also worked on at the same time, sparked a 50-year search for the Holy Grail of physics.
The particle was finally discovered in 2012 by scientists using the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Switzerland.
It completed what is called the standard model of particle physics.
A famously shy man, he told journalists: "It's very nice to be right sometimes."
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