Nobel prize goes to.....

BIG NEWS: For the first time in the 113 year history of the prizes, the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to the Higgs Boson ahead of the scheduled date of October 8. According to Prof. Lars Brink, the chairman of the Nobel physics committee, the decision to award the prize to a discovery rather than scientists was made to put an end to arguments over division of credit and authorship.

“The decision was gruelling, but we thought about it a long time and finally reached a consensus. We said, look, it’s not really about the theorists or the experimentalists, it’s really about the particle; this fundamental, all-encompassing particle that underpins the very existence of matter."

Read more in Ashutosh Jogalekar's excellent blog for Scientific American magazine: http://bit.ly/15Fr6NB