The prestigious award goes to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, who independently proposed what became the Higgs boson discovered in 2012. October 8, 2013 4:03 AM PDT Nobel Prize winners Francois Englert and Peter Higgs meeting at the CERN in 2012, 50 years after the particle accelerator was used to discover the Higgs boson particle they independently predicted 50 years earlier. (Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET) After five decades of research to confirm their theory, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for work that led to last year's discovery of the Higgs boson. The Nobel Prize committee named the winners "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributed to the understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles," said Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, at a news conference. More to come...
The prestigious award goes to Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, who independently proposed what became the Higgs boson discovered in 2012.
Nobel Prize winners Francois Englert and Peter Higgs meeting at the CERN in 2012, 50 years after the particle accelerator was used to discover the Higgs boson particle they independently predicted 50 years earlier.
(Credit: screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)
After five decades of research to confirm their theory, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for work that led to last year's discovery of the Higgs boson.
The Nobel Prize committee named the winners "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributed to the understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles," said Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, at a news conference.
More to come...
