Scientists François Englert and Peter W. Higgs have jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for predicting the Higgs Boson, the particle – and its connected mechanism – which underlines the way all mass works in the universe. The pair took the award “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,” the Nobel Prize committee announced today, “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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