With the passing of Nobel prize-winning physicist, Peter Higgs, we reflect on the importance of ‘the God particle’, the Higgs boson. We asked some of the world’s leading thinkers and physicists for their thoughts on Higgs and the legacy of his work. The story of Peter Higgs and his Higgs boson is one that lays bare the power of theory and wonder of the experiments that are built to test them. John Ellis: Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London, and visiting scientist at CERN.A modest giant of particle physics has left us.Peter Higgs got his Bachelor’s degree at King’s College London in 1950, and his PhD for research in molecular physics in 1954. His research interests shifted subsequently to quantum field theory, leading in 1964 to his famous papers describing how elementary particles could acq…

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