CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs . Peter Higgs passed away on 8 April at the age of 94 10 April, 2024 Peter Higgs, in front of the CMS detector, in 2008. (Image: Maximilien Brice/CERN). Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson . Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics – a remarkable theory which e...