A brief history of the discovery of the Higgs boson

The discovery of Higgs boson in 2012 marked a milestone in the history of particle physics that not only filled in the last piece of the Standard Model jigsaw puzzle but also led to the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to those physicists who proposed the Higgs mechanism. On the 10^th anniversary of the discovery, this article will present a brief guide to the near-half-century history from the idea of Higgs mechanism to its discovery