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2013Higgs and Englert win Nobel Prize in PhysicsAward recognises theory behind the Higgs bosonPeter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their theoretical work predicting the Higgs boson, confirmed experimentally at CERN's Large Hadron Collider the previous year. The discovery explained how fundamental particles acquire mass.