Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, on Wednesday, referred to as Peter Higgs, the physicist who proposed the Higgs Boson particle, a “sensible human.”
“He was an particularly sensible human,” Musk wrote in a submit on X.com.
The Nobel winner physicist, identified for his concept that explains how elementary particles get their mass, died aged 94 on Monday, 8 April at his residence following a brief sickness, in keeping with a press release from Edinburgh College, UK.
He was “really a gifted scientist whose imaginative and prescient and creativeness have enriched our data of the world that surrounds us.”
Peter first proposed the existence of a brand new particle in 1964, whereas working as a lecturer at Edinburgh College. Its existence was confirmed about 50 years later in 2012 by researchers at CERN, the European Group for Nuclear Analysis, in Switzerland.
