Higgs field prediction lands Nobel Prize in physics

By Andrew Grant and Gabriel Popkin

BIG BANG  This CMS collision event shows characteristics expected from the decay of the standard model Higgs boson to a pair of photons (dashed yellow lines and green towers). The prediction of the Higgs particle won scientists the Nobel Prize in physics.

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