"British physicist Peter Higgs, who more than 40 years ago postulated the existence of the particle in the makeup of the atom, said is visit to a new accelerator in Geneva last weekend encouraged him that the Higgs boson will soon be seen."

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4609570

Also, checkout from the National Geographic:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/03/god-particle/achenbach-text