Tributes have been paid to Edinburgh University’s Nobel Prize-winning Professor Peter Higgs, the "truly gifted scientist" behind the concept of the subatomic particle the Higgs boson, who has died, aged 94. Professor Higgs predicted of the existence of a new particle - the so-called Higgs boson - in 1964. The particle's existence would not be confirmed for almost half a century, with experiments at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern finally confirming his theory in 2012. Prof Higgs, emeritus... Read this story
