The renowned scientist came up with revolutionary ideas in the 1960s, sparking a 50-year search for...
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.
OPEN. Peter Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929.
The particle became known as the Higgs boson - and for 50 years scientists looked for it using some of the most spectacular technology on Earth.
Prof Higgs retired from the University of Edinburgh in 2006, but he continued to watch developments at Cern in Geneva, where scientists were using the Large Hadron Collider to look for the Higgs boson.
In 2012 physicists at Cern finally announced to great fanfare that they had discovered the Higgs boson.
Peter Higgs worked with eminent scientists around the world including Francois Englert and Rolf Heuer.
Oxford emeritus professor Ken Peach talked about returning from a conference where scientists were referring constantly to Peter Higgs.
Some friends feel Peter Higgs did not make the kind of impact that might be expected of a physicist of his ability.
Pallab Ghosh goes inside the largest particle accelerator in the world - which discovered the Higgs boson.
Peter Higgs, father of 'God particle', dies aged 94.