Physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to two physicists, Francois Englert and Peter Higgs, for their discoveries that helped humans understand the origin of the mass of atomic particles.

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to two physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs.

Belgian physicist Francois Englert, 80, and British physicist Peter Higgs, 84, have been pursuing and searching for the origin of a particle called the Higgs boson since 1964.

On July 4, 2012, physicists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) discovered a particle with properties similar to the Higgs boson discovered in 1964. The probability that the Higgs boson had been found was only about 0.00003%.

However, physicists around the world only truly recognized the existence of the Higgs boson after testing at the Large Hadron Collider. The particle accelerator was built at a cost of 10 billion USD and stretches through a 27km long tunnel located below the Swiss-French border.

The Higgs boson was discovered thanks to a re-enactment of the Big Bang, which scientists once considered the theory of the creation of the universe. That's why the Higgs boson is also called the "God particle" by the media.

The announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was delayed by about an hour. The Nobel Committee did not give an official reason for the delay. Commenters on Twitter joked that the Nobel Committee had waited for physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs to be available to answer questions live on the phone before making the announcement.

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