Nobel Physics Prize Goes to "God Particle" Theorists

The 2013 Nobel Prize for physics has been won by Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain for the discovery of the so-called "God particle." Staffan Normark of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the prize Tuesday in Stockholm, describing the discovery as "something very small that makes all the difference." "And the Academy citation runs: 'For the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding ...

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