The eminent Swiss scientist was received by the President and will be holding a lecture at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana in which he will present the long path that has led to the great discovery.

The theorists Peter Higgs and Francois Englart have received a Nobel Prize for the discovery of the Higgs boson in December. All that would not be possible without decades of work on experiments in which scientists tried to confirm the existence of a particle that confers mass to all other particles.
Dr. Peter Jenni was one of the founding fathers of the Atlas project, which was launched 22 years ago. He headed the project until his retirement in 2009. In twenty years, the Atlas project involved some 20 Slovenian scientists. The extraordinary discovery of the Higgs boson is only the first step that will lead scientists to new areas of physics.