CERN pays tribute to Peter Higgs Peter Higgs’ scientific legacy will extend far beyond the scope of current discoveries. The Higgs boson is linked to some of the most intriguing and crucial outstanding questions in fundamental physics. This still quite mysterious particle therefore represents a uniquely promising pathway to physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. | CERN

After the discovery 💫 Over 12 years ago, the ATLAS Experiment at CERN and CMS Experiment at CERN at the #LHC announced the discovery of a particle with characteristics consistent with those of the #HiggsBoson. The discovery was recognised with the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their theoretical work. Since then, physicists have continued studying this mysterious particle to learn more about our #Universe. Watch Haider (ATLAS) and Cristina (CMS) sha

"Well imagine a snowfield..." We asked Peter Higgs to describe the Higgs field - which gives particles in our universe mass - in a simple way. Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2013 with François Englert for the theory of how particles acquire mass. Learn more about the discovery: https://bit.ly/30ktoHs | Nobel Prize

During his Nobel Prize banquet speech, 2013 physics laureate Peter Higgs took a moment to reflect on the decades of research and the many involved in understanding the origin of subatomic particle mass. Keep an eye out for the banquet speeches from our 2024 laureates. | Nobel Prize

During his Nobel Prize banquet speech, 2013 physics laureate Peter Higgs reflected on the decades of research – and the many individuals – whose work contributed to understanding the origin of subatomic particle mass. Among those whose insights shaped this achievement was Robert Brout, whose collaboration with François Englert laid the theoretical foundations of what is now known as the Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) mechanism. Although Brout did not live to see the Higgs boson’s discovery or share i