'Der Spiegel': Meet Peter Higgs

Meet Peter Higgs

The Man Behind The God Particle

Physicist Peter Higgs is now world famous because of the subatomic particle bearing his name. But his ideas were initially snubbed by the academic world, with his landmark publication predicting the existence of the Higgs boson being rejected at first. The editor apparently didn't understand a word of it. By Margriet van der Heijden more...