This article is from the source 'nytimes' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.

You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/09/science/englert-and-higgs-win-nobel-physics-prize.html

The article has changed 9 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.

Version 0 Version 1
Higgs and Englert Are Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics Higgs and Englert Are Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
(35 minutes later)
STOCKHOLM — Physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. The God particle became the prize particle today.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists for the “theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.” Two theoretical physicists who suggested that an invisible ocean of energy suffusing space is responsible for the mass and diversity of the particles in the universe won the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. They are Peter Higgs, 84, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and François Englert, 80, of the University Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
The physics prize announcement was delayed by one hour, which is highly unusual. The academy gave no immediate reason, other than saying on Twitter that it was “still in session” at the original announcement time. The theory, elucidated in 1964, sent physicists on a generation-long search for a telltale particle known as the Higgs boson, or the God particle. The chase culminated in July 2012 with the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, in Switzerland.
The academy decides the winners in a majority vote on the day of the announcement. They will split a prize of $1.2 million, to be awarded in Stockholm Dec. 10.
The Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences hailed the prize as “the discovery for the discovery of the mechanism that contributes to understanding the origin of the mass of subatomic particles.”