Peter Higgs never doubted, but still amazed by boson’s existence

New Scientist : Peter Higgs, whose name is attached to the particle he helped predict, didn’t know that CERN’s ATLAS and CMS experiments had seen the particle until the night before the 4 July announcement . Although he never doubted the correctness of his prediction, he didn’t expect that CERN would achieve the 99.99994% level of certainty so quickly. He is also amazed by the attention and requests he’s been getting; for example, he’s been asked to endorse a board game and to let a microbrewery make a beer in his honor. Higgs tells New Scientist‘s Jessica Griggs that he will probably “get jittery” around the time of the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics. And because others also predicted the particle’s existence, he prefers to call the particle the “H boson”.