It was 60 years ago when Higgs first suggested how an elementary particle of unusual properties could pervade the universe in the form of an invisible field, giving other elementary particles their masses. Several other physicists independently thought of this mechanism around the same time, including Francois Englert.
Two separate experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland ATLAS and the CMS confirmed Higgs' predictions when they announced the discovery of the Higgs boson half a century later.
Besides his outstanding contributions to particle physics, Peter was a very special person, an immensely inspiring figure for physicists around the world, a man of rare modesty, a great teacher and someone who explained physics in a very simple yet profound way, said Fabiola Gianotti, director-general of CERN.
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