Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs is a British physicist best known for his work on the Higgs boson, a fundamental particle that imparts mass to other particles in the universe. The Higgs field, proposed by Higgs and others in the 1960s, is a field permeating space, and particles gain mass by interacting with it. The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at CERN's Large Hadron Collider confirmed this theory, significantly advancing our understanding of particle physics and the fundamental structure of matter, playing a crucial role in the Standard Model, which describes how particles and forces interact in the universe.