That day at Cern began a new era in particle physics "- Swedish Dagbladet

Autumn 1964 published two articles that would change the particle physics forever. First was Belgian François Englert along with the American-Belgian colleague Robert Brout. About a month later, Briton Peter W. Higgs independent contributions to the theory of what has come to be known as the Higgs field and the Higgs particle.

Nearly 50 years later, Englert and Higgs meet for the first time. It was July 4, 2012 – just over a year after Robert Brouts death – while a first proof of the trio’s predictions sighted.

That day at Cern began a new era in particle physics, says Olga Botner, Professor of Physics at Uppsala University and member of the Royal. Academy’s Nobel Committee for Physics.

With tears in his eyes could Peter Higgs – then place in Geneva at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research – note that the particle with his name skymtats. Among the huge volumes of data that is the result of particle collisions in the accelerator showed a graph a little peak at the right place.

That day it also became clear that the discovery was worthy of a Nobel Prize. And the prophecy came true yesterday, as the overall global media after an hour of nervous anticipation could conclude that all suspected: the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded François Englert and Peter Higgs. A real lågoddsval.

You can probably imagine that it’s not too uncomfortable, summed up a hilarious and happy François Englert their feelings on the phone during the press conference.

Peter Higgs had made himself unreachable, and the difficulties to contact the winners certainly contributed to delays in the announcement.

With its Decision chose Committee to bypass the three scientists who also was an early adopter of the subject, Americans Gerald Guralnik and Carl Hagen, and Tom Kibble Briton.

– It has been largely ignored by the Europeans who have beaten the drums for their own candidates Higgs and Englert said Carl Hagen yesterday said.

Hagen criticized the Academy’s policy that no more than three people can be assigned to the Nobel Prize.

Possibly shared sentences have prevailed as to whether it would also reward any representative of the experimental part of the hunt for the Higgs particle. Without multi-billion machine Large Hadron Collider, LHC, at CERN had theories continued to be just theories.

No organization has been awarded a Nobel Prize but the peace prize, but the question was why it completely overrode the experimental part.

It is an issue that is quite obvious to imagine today. But the committees have to start from the first of Alfred Nobel. Then, nominations, and so is a matter of tradition and prestige of the prize. All this is included in the discussions and then we ended up in a quote that is what you see today. But the internal discussions revealed first in 50 years, says Olga Botner.

Ulf Danielsson, Professor in Theoretical Physics at Uppsala University, do not really rank different physics laureate.

But it is clear that this is a little extra spectacular. With this discovery accomplished particle physics standard model, he says.

When asked if he believes that CERN should have been noted more, he confined himself to stating that the experiments at CERN’s LHC accelerator mentioned in the citation.

Englert and Higgs are two very deserving winners, says Ulf Danielsson.