Peter Higgs(Britain) and Francois Englert(Belgium)have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday Oct 8,2013 for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets
Higgs' and Englert's work shows how elementary particles inside atoms gain mass by interacting with an invisible field pervading all of space - and the more they interact, the heavier they become. The particle associated with the field is the Higgs boson
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the prize went to Higgs and Englert for work fundamental to describing how the universe is constructed
Chairman Gunnar Ingelman, left, permanent secretary Staffan Normark, centre, and board member Olga Botner of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announce award of 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics to Briton Peter Higgs and Belgian Francois Englert, during a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Tuesday Oct 8,2013
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