In his own hand: Dated 1 May 2012, this letter was written by Peter Higgs to accept an invitation for an interview with Physics World in Bristol, the city where he went to school. (Courtesy: Jo Allen, with permission from the estate of Peter Higgs) I can’t really claim to have known the Nobel-prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, but after the sad news emerged last week that he had died on 8 April at the age of 94 , I was immediately reminded of my one brush with him. An obituary in the Times des...