Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to Francois Englert and Peter W

Name: Francois Englert

Born on : 6 Novemeber 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium

Affiliation at the time of the award: Universite Libre de Bruxellas, Brussels, Belgium

Prize motivation: "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 CERNS's large Hadron Collider".

Name: Peter W.Higgs

Born on: 29 May 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Affiliation at the time of award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Prize motivation:  "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 CERNS's large Hadron Collider".