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flag Peter Higgs donated his 2013 Nobel Prize medal to the University of Edinburgh, where he developed his theory on mass.

flag Professor Peter Higgs, who proposed the Higgs boson theory in 1964 at the University of Edinburgh, has donated his 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics medal to the university, as stated in his will. flag His theory, confirmed in 2012 at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, explained how matter acquires mass and earned him the Nobel alongside François Englert. flag Higgs, who joined Edinburgh in 1960 and became professor emeritus in 1996, died in April 2024 at age 94. flag The medal will be preserved in the university’s Centre for Research Collections and displayed at events, including the 2026 Higgs Lecture. flag The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics, established in 2012, continues to advance fundamental research in physics.

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