Peter W. Higgs

Prix

1. 2004

   Prix Wolf — Physique

   Physique

   for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles.

2. 2013

   prix Nobel — Physique

   Physique

   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