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Well, I think this is the biggest scientific discovery in my lifetime,

and it stands with the great scientific discoveries of all time.

We have found a new particle never seen before in Mother in Nature.

What is the Higgs boson?

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Hi, it's Madeline.

We're popping up in your feed a day early today to look back at the life and career of a giant of physics,

the British Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs, whose death at the age of 94 was announced yesterday.

From the Guardian, this is Science Weekly. I'm joined by Guardian Science Editor and fellow podcast host Ian Sample, who also happens

to be the author of the book Massive all about the hunt for the Higgs boson.

So, Ian, to start with, for those who don't know,

just give me a sense of how important Peter Higgs was in terms of his contribution to physics.

Well, I think physicists will tell you that what Higgs came up with I mean it's absolutely fundamental and

in one of the really early interviews I did with Higgs I asked him this question about how important this this really is and he said look if it wasn't

there referring to this field we wouldn't be here and it is that fundamental I mean this

theory this field, if it didn't exist,

electrons and quarks that build up atoms would have no mass. They would zip around at the speed of light like photons do.

So there'd be nothing there. We wouldn't be discussing it. And I am going to get you to

dig into that science a little bit more in a minute but like you said you

actually met him a number of times so tell me about him what was he like?

Well the word you'll always hear when people talk about Peter Higgs is humble and it's it's so true. I mean he was incredibly humble. I mean not to the point of being annoying. He was just lacking in arrogance probably the least

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