The Higgs boson is a fundamental particle in particle physics that is responsible for giving other particles their mass. It was first theorized in the 1960s by physicist Peter Higgs and others as a crucial component of the mechanism that explains how particles acquire mass. The existence of the Higgs boson was confirmed in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland through experiments that detected its production and decay. The discovery of the Higgs boson has been hailed as a major breakthrough in understanding the fundamental forces and particles that make up the universe. Further research into the properties of the Higgs boson is ongoing in order to better understand its role in the Standard Model of particle physics and its implications for our understanding of the universe.