Nobel-winning physicist Peter Higgs dies "peacefully in his home" | DW News - physics/astrophysics

Peter Higgs had a brilliant insight that was the missing link in physics and astrophysics.How did particles get their mass?He postulated the existence of the Higgs boson as the solution to this dilemma.Indeed,it was confirmed in 2012 at the Hadron Collider in Berne,Switzerland.It was the particle that the media called the "God particle" since it underpins the creation.Yet Peter Higgs was unfailingly humble and uncomfortable with his noteriety.