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His discovery continues to influence critical research into areas such as Dark Matter and the unification of forces

During a walk in the Scottish Highlands, one of the greats of particle physics had the idea of a lifetime

The discovery of the Higgs Boson in 2012 signalled the need for physicists to begin exploring physics beyond parameters they were used to. Higgs spent 50 years of his life searching for a single particle – Higgs Boson – that gives almost all other particles their mass

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What Peter Higgs achieved is nothing short of revolutionary. Despite his first paper on the idea being rejected, he hinted at another article, particle, a type of boson, that might be responsible for particles having mass. His revised 1964 paper, 'Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons', published after Englert and Brout's, was the first to state the existence of a new particle.