The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday "peacefully at home following a short illness." Higgs predicted the existence of a new particle-the so-called Higgs boson in 1964. But it would be almost 50 years before the particle's existence could be confirmed at the Large Hadron Collider.
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