On 4 July 2012, alongside the CMS spokesperson at the time, Joe Incandela, she announced the discovery of the Higgs boson. It was a very short exchange, just three words: we both knew that the Higgs boson was there. If it really was the Higgs boson, we had to see a handful of events in the four-lepton final state. The next morning, I walked onto the plane, past the table of newspapers, and all the front pages showed the Higgs boson discovery. ----More information about the search for the Higgs boson and the research carried out since its discovery can be found in the Higgs10 series published in 2022, on the tenth anniversary of the discovery.