The professor who has won acclaim for his contribution to the secular world of science is made a Companion of Honour.
Edinburgh-based Peter Higgs, 83, may have spent most of his career in laboratories but he first hit upon his defining concept of the God particle during a walk in the Cairngorms in 1964 when he started to consider the existence of a particle that gives matter mass.
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