2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Awarded for the theory of how particles acquire mass to:
Awarded for the theory of how particles acquire mass to:
- Francois Englert of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
- Peter Higgs of the University of Edinburgh
- Englert and Higgs proposed the theory independently of each other in 1964
- Their ideas were confirmed in 2012 by the discovery of a so-called Higgs, or 'God' particle