‘God particle’ scientist to get honour at Edinburgh festival
ByThe Courier Reporter
File photo dated 30/08/12 of Professor Peter Higgs who will become Companion of Honour for services to physics after being named in the New Year Honours list PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday August 30, 2012. See PA story HONOURS Higgs. Photo credit should read: David Cheskin/PA Wire
The professor who gave his name to the “God particle” believed to give matter mass is to receive a science medal.
Professor Peter Higgs will receive the Edinburgh Medal at a ceremony in the city on March 24.
The medal will also be awarded to international organisation Cern, whose Large Hadron Collider on the Swiss-French border last year detected the existence of an elusive, subatomic particle consistent with the long sought-after “Higgs boson”.
The medal will be awarded at Edinburgh International Science Festival, which runs from March 23 to April 7.
‘God particle’ scientist to get honour at Edinburgh festival
