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On 8 April 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on 4 July 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, Switzerland, when Higgs became an iconic figure in mod

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