Who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Peter Higgs
- Step 1: Peter Higgs shared the prize with François Englert for the "theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles", and CERN announced the discovery of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. Answer: Peter Higgs. Why not the others: John Bell, Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking don't fit.
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