Memo: Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn congratulates winners of Nobel Prize in Physics

European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Máire Geoghegan-Quinn on 8 October 2013 congratulated Belgian physicist François Englert and British physicist Peter W. Higgs for winning the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

They received the prize 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."

• Primary Source

Deutsche Welle, 08.10.13: Englert, Higgs win 2013 Nobel Physics Prize http://dw.de/p/19w49

France 24, 08.10.13: François Englert, Peter Higgs win Nobel physics prize http://www.france24.com/en/20131008-fran%C3%A7ois-englert-peter-higgs-win-nobel-prize-physics

The Guardian, 08.10.13: Peter Higgs and François Englert win Nobel Prize in Physics http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/oct/08/nobel-prize-in-physics-live-blog

BBC News, 08.10.13: Higgs boson scientists win Nobel prize in physics http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24436781

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