What Peter Higgs achieved is nothing short of revolutionary. Despite his first paper on the idea being rejected, he hinted at another article, particle, a type of boson, that might be responsible for particles having mass. His revised 1964 paper, Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons , published after Englert and Brout s, was the first to state the existence of a new particle.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider"