Peter Higgs, the physicist and Nobel prize-winner who discovered a new particle - the Higgs boson - has died aged 94.

Higgs had been handed the gong in 2013 for his 1964 work which showed how the Higgs boson particle gave other particles their mass - binding the universe together.

Experiments on his work began in 2008, and his theories were finally proved in 2012 by scientists at Switzerland's Large Hadron Collider.

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