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Nobel prize-winning British physicist, who gave his name to the "Higgs boson", a particle that helps explain why the basic building blocks of the Universe - atoms - have mass.

Dr Fowler's discovery of the Kaon particle helped to predict particles such as the Higgs boson, discovered at Cern in Geneva, Switzerland.

Peter Higgs, the British physicist who proposed the famed particle called the Higgs boson, died last week at age 94.

At the 2012 seminar announcing the discovery of the Higgs boson, he declined questions from the press, saying, “Now is not the time or the place.”

Prof Peter Higgs was best known for that mysterious-sounding thing nicknamed the 'God particle' - or just simply, and probably better-put, the Higgs boson.