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Peter Higgs proves to be as difficult to pin down as the particle named after him Physicist Peter Higgs stands in front of a photograph of a detector at the Large Hadron Collider, where the...

Editor's note: On October 8, 2013, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the Higgs boson. Below, our science columnist Brian Greene explains the...

Physicist Peter Higgs predicted the Higgs boson in a series of papers between 1964 and 1966, as an inevitable consequence of the mechanism responsible for giving elementary particles mass. This ...

The new Nobel laureates in physics are 84-year-old Englishman Peter Higgs, after whom the particle is named, and Francois Englert, 80, of Belgium. The selection, though widely applauded by ...

Peter Higgs was born to Thomas Ware Higgs and his wife Gertrude Maude née Coghill in Newcastle on May 29, 1929. His father worked as a sound engineer for the BBC. Since Peter sufferer from asthma in his childhood, he had to miss some early schooling and hence was taught at home initially.

Peter Higgs François Englert subatomic particle Higgs mechanism Higgs boson, also called Higgs particle, particle that is the carrier particle, or boson, of the Higgs field, a field that permeates space and endows all elementary subatomic particles with mass through its interactions with them.

The Guardian has an interesting piece about Peter Higgs, evidently their reporter talked to him on his way to the Nobel Prize ceremonies this week in Stockholm. Higgs will be speaking tomorrow (Sunday), and I’m curious to hear what he will have to say. His talk will be available live at the Nobel Prize website.

On the other is the theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who this year became a shoo-in for a future Nobel prize after scientists at Cern in Geneva showed that his theory about how fundamental...