Nobel Prize For Physics 2013:

[RDS]

Won by a Belgian and a British. Nobel Prize For Physics 2013: Francois Englert And Peter W. Higgs Honored For Higgs Boson Research

 

[Rainman05]

Won by a Belgian and a British. Nobel Prize For Physics 2013: Francois Englert And Peter W. Higgs Honored For Higgs Boson Research

Yep, for their contributions with the Higgs-boson particle.

EDIT: I don't wanna brag, but in my mind, I did call it before it happened. I would have bet that the ppl who'd win will have to be in relation to the higgs-boson particle. Too big a discovery.

 

[RDS]

Despite the early rejection of his theory he never gave up hope and was rewarded 50 years later.

One day, when Peter Higgs was a 34-year-old physicist studying at the University of Edinburgh, he came up with an idea.

It was a bold one, an ambitious one, and an extremely complex one. He wrote two papers about it — pencil scribbled on paper. The second paper was turned down; the editors said the theory was "of no obvious relevance to physics." His colleagues even told him he did not grasp the fundamentals of the field.

Fifty years later, 84-year-old Higgs achieved the Nobel Prize in Physics for that one idea, on Tuesday morning.

Peter Higgs Never Imagined That He'd Live to See This Day

 

[Ben K.]

Apparently he has no idea he's won. Gone hiking in the Middle of Nowhere, Scotland and is off the grid.