Tuesday 8 October 2013

'God particle' theorists receive Nobel Prize in physics

'God particle' theorists receive Nobel Prize in physics, at last! http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/press.html "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to
François Englert
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
and
Peter W. Higgs
University of Edinburgh, UK
“for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”"

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