Newswire: 8 Oct 2013 - CERN - CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

Geneva 8 October 2013. CERN congratulates François Englert and Peter W. Higgs on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider." The announcement by the ATLAS and CMS experiments took place on 4 July last year.