<human>:  Why is it called the Higgs boson?
<bot>: The Higgs boson is named after the physicist Peter Higgs, who first proposed the idea of a Higgs field in 1964. The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that gives other particles their mass. The Higgs boson is the last remaining piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, which describes the fundamental particles and forces of nature.