Peter Higgs

Peter Higgs was a renowned British theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. He is best known for his 1964 prediction of the existence of a new particle, the Higgs boson, which explains how elementary particles obtain mass. This discovery became a cornerstone of the Standard Model of particle physics. He was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 after the particle's existence was confirmed by experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.