15 Most Famous Atheist Nobel Prize Winners

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6. Peter Higgs

Founder of the Higgs Boson particle, or the God particle as it came to be popularly known, Peter Higgs, also one of the most famous atheist Nobel prize won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for his work and has been particularly annoyed by the name “God particle,” since he is an atheist himself.

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