On April 8, 2024, British theoretical physicist Peter Ware Higgs passed away at the age of 94. It was almost 12 years ago, on July 4, 2012, in a fairly inauspicious lecture hall located in Geneva, ...

Two 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 ...

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

This year's Physics Nobel Prize was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs. Oct. 8, 2013— -- Just about a year after the discovery of the elusive "God particle," the Royal Swedish Academy of ...

Following a last-minute delay, physicists Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were today jointly awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent formulation of the Higgs mechanism, which ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday (Oct. 8) was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for their work in developing the theory of the Higgs field, and Purdue ...

More than two years after physicists discovered the Higgs boson, there’s still a lot they don’t know about the elusive particle. Now, they want your help to make the next discovery about this particle ...

The prediction of the mass-bestowing Higgs field and the famous particle that goes with it has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics. The Nobel committee selected Peter Higgs of the University of ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 has been awarded to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs, the two scientists who independently from each other both laid out the theoretical framework for the Higgs ...