Higgs was born on 29 May 1929 in Newcastle and studied physics at Kings College, London, where he received his PhD in 1954. After a short stint at the University of Edinburgh in 1954-1956, he moved to London, only to return to Edinburgh in 1960, where he began lecturing at the Institute of Mathematical Physics.
The Higgs boson, which scientists have been searching for for decades, is one of the basic building blocks of modern physics, as it confirms the validity of the current theory of the origin of the universe and explains how other particles acquired mass.
New experiments further confirm the discovery of the Higgs boson
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Higgs and, independently of him, François Englert predicted the existence of the particle in 1964. In July 2012, their assumptions were confirmed by experiments at the Giant Hadron Collider (LHC). The results of the experiments coincided with the predicted values by up to 95 percent.
Finding the Higgs boson was very difficult. “It lives very short. That’s a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a second. It is a time that we cannot imagine,” explained Czech physicist Jiří Chýla after the Nobel Prize was awarded to Higgs and Englert in 2013.
In March 2013, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) announced that new experiments on a subatomic particle increasingly show that it could be the so-called Higgs boson. According to scientists, it is actually just a question of whether it is a “standard” boson or one of its variants.
Higgs was told about winning the Nobel Prize by a passerby on the street
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