Peter Higgs has joined the Royal Society’s Copley Medal.

Nobel prize winner Peter Higgs has joined the ranks of Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein by winning the world’s oldest scientific prize, the Royal Society’s Copley Medal, for his pioneering work on the theory of the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012. The Copley medal was first awarded by the Royal Society in 1731, 170 years before the first Nobel Prize.