Peter Higgs received a Nobel prize for his prediction of the boson named after him Claudia Marcelloni/CERN
Elusive: How Peter Higgs solved the mystery of mass Frank Close
IN HIS latest book Elusive, physicist Frank Close sets out to write about Peter Higgs, whose belief in the detectability of a very special particle that was to bear his name earned him a Nobel prize in 2013.
But Higgs’s life resists narrative. He has had a successful career. His colleagues enjoy his company. He didn’t over-publish or get into pointless spats. Now in his mid-nineties, Higgs…
