In Memoriam: Peter Higgs (1929-2024)
In Memoriam: Peter Higgs (1929-2024)
Peter Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, famous for his work published in 1964, where he proposed a mechanism that can generate masses for elementary particles, while respecting gauge invariance. Half a century later, two experiments at CERN confirmed that this mechanism is realized in nature. On April 8th, we …