Wednesday 9 October 2013

Nobel physics prize spotlights Higgs boson, plus Drs. Higgs and Englert

nbcnews.com - 1 hour agoTwo theorists who predicted the existence of the subatomic Higgs boson almost 50 years ago — and were proven right just last year — won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday.British physicist Peter Higgs and Belgian physicist Francois Englert shared the honors, announced in Stockholm at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences."This year's prize is about something small that makes all the difference," said Staffan Normark, the academy's permanent secretary.

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