Originally posted by issacar Nobel Prize for physics goes to Higgs boson researchers
Britain's Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets.
Half a century after their original work, the new building block of nature was finally detected in 2012 at the CERN research centre's giant, underground particle-smasher near Geneva. The discovery was hailed as one of the most important in physics.
Not very surprising but ti's nice to see that some dudes though of a theory 50 years ago with limited to no means to verify their theory and now it has been confirmed...