More than 40 years ago, Peter Higgs, an undistinguished physicist at Edinburgh University in England, put forward a theory of how the universe holds together. He is now in line for a multi-billion-dollar prize for his research to discover a key particle. Is this not the biggest find since modern physics? Should he not be awarded the Nobel Prize? In March 1996, Higgs, then 36, gave a lecture to senior students in a college within one mile of Einstein's home in Princeton University. He proposed reforms in certain areas,%9...