The scientific library of the late Nobel Prize-winner Professor Peter Higgs, is expected to fetch up to £25,000 at auction this month.

The theoretical physicist was best known for his 1964 prediction of the “Higgs Boson”, also known as the “God particle”, which helps to explain why the most basic building blocks of the universe have mass.

He shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with François Englert for the work, which was confirmed by experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012.

Higgs died in April last year aged 94 at his home in the New Town, leaving a personal library comprising over 280 scientific volumes published between 1937 and the 2000s.

The books, almost all of which feature Higgs’ handwritten ownership inscriptions on the fly leaf, are being offered for sale by hi

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