Peter Ware Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1929. He is currently Professor-Emeritus at University of Edinburgh. Read his story at the Physics World website. Widely acclaimed as the 'next' Noble Prize winner, he was inspired by Paul Dirac in his early years. Stephen Hawking has offered £100 in wager if Higgs-boson (or God particle, as it often called) is ever found.
Since the particle was discovered by Robert Brout and François Englert at the same time as Peter Higgs, it is probably more appropriately called as Higgs-Brout-Englert boson.
Read the story in Guardian and watch Peter Higg's interview on youtube.
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"Since the particle was discovered by Robert Brout and François Englert at the same time as Peter Higgs, it is probably more appropriately called as Higgs-Brout-Englert boson."
This is above statement is not correct. Brout and Englert did not predict the boson or particle in their 1964 PRL paper. They got the mechanism only. Higgs (PH) and Guralnik-Hagen-Kibble (GHK) got the meachnism and boson (bottom of page 586 in PRL paper in GHK paper). Addiitonally, GHK also showed percisely how Goldstone's theorem is avoided in a radiation guage - not merely suggesting that it could as PH did.
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