Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson.
In the 1960s, they were among several physicists who proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of the Universe have mass. The Nobel Prize said the pair were awarded the prize for the “theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles,…
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