Higgs, an emeritus professor at Edinburgh University ... of the search were so vast that the Higgs boson was dubbed the “god particle”, though many scientists rejected the name.

The University of Edinburgh reported on Tuesday that Nobel winner Peter Higgs, the man who gave rise to the “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at ...

The preferred name for the God particle among physicists is the Higgs boson, or the Higgs particle, or simply the Higgs, in honor of the University of Edinburgh physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed ...