Whose Discovery Was the Higgs Boson?

British physicist Peter Higgs proposed in 1964 that a field (now called the Higgs field) permeates the universe and gives particles their mass, with an associated particle — the Higgs boson. Belgian physicists François Englert and Robert Brout independently proposed the same mechanism. On 4 July 2012, scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) announced the discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson, completing the Standard Model of particle physics. Higgs and Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.