The Higgs boson. The greatest discovery of the century - And Higgs entered history. A window on hidden reality

This article recalls the history and actors of scientific research in particle physics which leaded to the hypothesis and later the evidence of the existence of the Higgs boson. It evokes the main accelerators since 1931 (the Lawrence cyclotron, the Cockcroft Walton generator, the LEP electron-proton collider, the Tevatron), until the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Then, it discusses how the existence of the Higgs boson which confirms the physics standard model, creates new theoretical perspectives for the understanding of cosmos history, notably for the Universe missing mass, dark energy, and so on