Peter Higgs was awarded Nobel Prize 2013 in Physics "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."
Nationality British
Institution University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Award 2013
Discipline Physics
Co-recipients François Englert
MotivationAwarded with Nobel Prize 2013 in Physics "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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