Blue plaque for Higgs

The Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs has been celebrated with a blue plaque marking where, in 1964, he wrote papers predicting the Higgs boson.

Sponsored by the Institute of Physics and Edinburgh City Council, the plaque is in Higgs’ home town of Edinburgh at 5 Roxburgh Street.

Richard Kenway, vice principal of the University of Edinburgh and a former colleague of Higgs, said: “It is truly historic to celebrate such a seminal theory in physics with its author, Peter Higgs, in the building where he first wrote it more than 50 years ago, and in the company of some of his colleagues from that time.”