ElusiveAn illuminating history of the man and the science behind the Higgs boson, 'a piece of scientific history' (Spectator) In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle today known as the Higgs boson