Prof. Dr. Peter Higgs

Nationality

British 

Institution

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom  

Award

2013 

Discipline

Physics 

Co-recipients

François Englert 

Motivation

"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."

Biography on the Official Web Site of the Nobel Prize