Why François Englert received the 2013 Physics Nobel

Why it was awarded

François Englert received the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics 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. This work opened new questions and influenced later research and practice.