The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

François Englert

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Prize share: 1/2

Peter W. Higgs

© Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud

Prize share: 1/2

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "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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