François Englert
François Englert
2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for prediction of the Higgs boson
October 09, 2013
In the 1960s Peter Higgs and François Englert proposed a theory in which they predicted the existence of a particle, which became known as the Higgs boson, responsible of giving mass to the matter particles we know of today: electrons, protons, neutrons, etc. This particle originates from an invisible field that fills up all space. Without it, we would not exist, because it is from contact with the field that particles acquire mass.
July 4th of 2012, for the first time, scientists from the experiments ATLAS and CMS of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced the discovery of a new particle which resembled quite astoundingly to the Higgs boson, a particle predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
The importance of this work has been celebrated in the scientific community and has awakened a great deal of interest in society in general. Yesterday, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was granted to Peter Higgs and François Englert for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
ICFO congratulates these kindred spirits and celebrates their substantial contributions to the field of Physics and our understanding of the Universe we live in.
July 4th of 2012, for the first time, scientists from the experiments ATLAS and CMS of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN announced the discovery of a new particle which resembled quite astoundingly to the Higgs boson, a particle predicted by the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
The importance of this work has been celebrated in the scientific community and has awakened a great deal of interest in society in general. Yesterday, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was granted to Peter Higgs and François Englert for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.
ICFO congratulates these kindred spirits and celebrates their substantial contributions to the field of Physics and our understanding of the Universe we live in.
Peter W. Higgs