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A Scientist's Life
Boson predictor Peter Higgs: a fundamentally modest physicist

They called it the God particle and then the "elusive" one. But they found the Higgs boson in the end. And British physicist and Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs has lived to see the impact of his science.

Theoretical physics must be a lonely calling.

There you are, driven to discover and explain the universe. You've got people around you, a team of disciples, all following a similar ideology.

An assumption. Hypothesis. Or prediction.

But there's no way of knowing whether what you see, or this thing you think could there if only the technology would let you see it, is... indeed there. Until you prove it.

And even your own science community needs convincing.

You would have to be a visionary. Or a true believer. Which is ironic. In physics. Where everything began with a bang, rather than the words "In the beginning..."

Someone like Peter Higgs. The British theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate is known for predicting the existence of a very special, fundamental element of the known universe.

Higgs turns 90 on May 29.