The Higgs Prize, which is due to be announced by the first minister Alex Salmond this week, will include a trip to the CERN facility in Switzerland where work continues on researching the particle.
Professor Peter Higgs was set to formally launch the prize with Mr Salmond as part of a range of events to promote the global reputation of Scottish science.
Prof Higgs said: “As a student at my old school in Bristol, I was inspired by seeing the name of Paul Dirac appear several times on the honours board. Dirac was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1933 for his work of inventing anti-matter and in particular the positron.
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