Peter Higgs was the quiet British physicist whose theory reshaped our understanding of the universe. Best known for proposing the Higgs mechanism in 1964, he explained how fundamental particles acquire mass without breaking the symmetry of nature’s laws. His insight predicted the existence of the Higgs boson, confirmed nearly five decades later at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in 2012.... https://maxmag.org/tributes/peter-higgs-biography-quiet-theorist/