"British physicist Peter Higgs is among those credited with the theory behind the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle long thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe. <a href=""http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-22073084"" target=""_blank"">In an interview with the BBC</a>, he expressed his discomfort with people calling it the ""God particle."" He said, ""First of all, I'm an atheist. The second thing is I know that name (started as) a kind of joke and not a very good one. ... It's so misleading."""