2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded 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.”

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/press.html