François Englert and Peter W. Higgs are jointly awarded the Nobel - TopicsExpress



          

François Englert and Peter W. Higgs are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for the theory of how particles acquire mass. In 1964, they proposed the theory independently of each other (Englert together with his now deceased colleague Robert Brout). In 2012, their ideas were confirmed by the discovery of a so called Higgs particle at the CERN laboratory outside Geneva in Switzerland.. more here at nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/press.html
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:03:43 +0000

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