Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Following the the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012, Edinburgh University established the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics. It was named in honour of Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Edinburgh, who had first theoretically posited the existence of the Higgs boson in a groundbreaking 1964 article. Confirmation of Higg's theory marked the start of a new era in theoretical physics. The Higgs centre was established to support future research which would refine our understanding of the universe, and to seek answers to such outstanding questions as the nature of dark matter and dark energy and how gravity may be explained by the Standard Model of Physics.