Peter Higgs
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013.
Born: 29, May, 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Prize motivation: "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"
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prize share: 1/2