The award is named Peter Higgs

The Scottish government announced that it had set up a physics prize named Professor Peter Higgs, who first proposed the theory of the existence of a grain named after him.

The Peter Higgs award will be an annual award for students with outstanding achievements in physics in Scotland. Scottish Prime Minister Alex Salmond will officially announce the award tomorrow.

Professor Higss hopes the new award will stimulate the students' passion for science.

Professor Peter Higgs.

"I welcome the encouragement of good physics students and support future generations of scientists by awarding such prizes," he said.

In 1964, Professor Higgs and a number of other physicists proposed a hypothesis to explain why all kinds of matter in the universe have mass. According to this hypothesis, a particle has created mass for matter. Because the Higgs was the first to publish the hypothesis, the scientists called it the Higgs. In addition, people call it "the seed of God".

The Higgs particle helps humans explain why mass particles (such as quarks, leptons, bosons) have mass - a characteristic that allows them to bind together by gravity to make stars, planets, and water. , stone, gas. If particles do not have mass, they will move chaotic in the universe at the speed of light and do not create any form of matter. In that case the universe would be a chaotic mass like a soup bowl.

Thousands of scientists have been involved in the search for the Higgs during the past five decades. In July, the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) announced that it discovered a type of particle that is very similar in character to the Higgs particle thanks to direct collisions between particles in a large border particle accelerator. Switzerland and France.

After CERN's announcement, public opinion predicted that the Higgs would become one of the future Nobel laureates. Many people even called on the British royal family to award knights to an 84-year-old professor.