Discovery of Higgs Boson

The Higgs Boson is a hypothetical elementary particle, predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is named after Peter Higgs, a physicist at the Edinburgh University who made the discovery, although the original insight, in one of those recurrent back stories of science, was Philip Anderson's. The Higgs Boson is, in fact, along with the fermion (named after Enrico Fermi), one of the two fundamental classes of subatomic particles. The word 'Boson' is derived from the name of Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian scientist from Kolkata who realized that the statistical method use to analyse most 19th-century work on the thermal behaviour of gases was inadequate.

The occasion of discovery of Higgs Boson came for the scientists working at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) on July 4, 2012, when they believed that they had found the subatomic particle that confirmed their understanding of how the universe works. They came very close to the elusive particle hitherto referred to as the Higgs Boson or God Particle. Higgs Boson is essential to the so-called Standard Model of physics, the generally accepted theory about how the universe works. The scientists thought it to be a breakthrough, because it took almost half a century of deep thought, more than 30 years of tireless efforts put into painstaking experimentation with massive 2.6 billion pound machine, the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest atom smasher in the world.