Peter Higgs received a Nobel prize for his prediction of the boson named after him Claudia Marcelloni/CERN
IN HIS latest book Elusive, 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 keeps his own counsel and doesn’t use…
