  Peter Higgs was a British theoretical physicist, famous for his work
published in 1964, where he proposed a mechanism that can generate masses for
elementary particles, while respecting gauge invariance. Half a century later,
two experiments at CERN confirmed that this mechanism is realized in nature. On
April 8th, we received the sad news of the passing of the great pioneer of
elementary particle physics. This article is dedicated to his memory, and to
the mechanism and particle that bear his name.
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  Peter Higgs fue un f\'isico te\'orico brit\'anico, famoso por su trabajo de
1964 donde propuso un mecanismo que puede generar masas para part\'iculas
elementales, conforme a la simetr\'ia de norma. Medio siglo m\'as tarde, dos
experimentos del CERN confirmaron que este mecanismo est\'a realizado en la
naturaleza. El 8 de abril nos lleg\'o la triste noticia del fallecimiento del
gran pionero de la fisica de part\'iculas elementales. Este art\'iculo es
dedicado a su memoria, as\'i como al mecanismo y a la part\'icula que llevan su
nombre.
