[HIGHLIGHTS] As elusive as its particle, the father of the Higgs boson is dead

Peter Higgs theorized in the early 1960s the mechanism by which particles acquire their mass. He predicted the existence of a particle, discovered in 2012, linked to this phenomenon.

The announcement of its discovery by CERN in 2012 went around the world and made the front pages of all the newspapers. Thousands of researchers had been actively tracking this particle for almost fifty years, for which billions had been invested. Higgs died on Monday following a “short illness” at the age of 94. He spent most of his career at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, but also worked in London and New York. The man was as elusive as his particle...   Peter Higgs, 94, was a British physicist who worked in New York, London and Paris. He was also a member of the Royal Society of London and the Royal Institute of Physics. He is survived by his wife, two children and a step-daughter. The Higgs boson was discovered at CERN, in Switzerland, in 2012.