Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs wins Nobel prize for Physics

Heard about the Higgs Boson particle?
In the 1960s, Higgs and Englert theorized the existence of the particle to explain why matter has mass. Decades would pass before scientists at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, were able to confirm its existence.

Finding the particle — often referred to as the "God particle"