Nobel prize in physics awarded for Higgs Boson

The Nobel prize in physics was awarded today to two scientists whose theories are key to explaining the building blocks of matter, and the origins of the universe.

Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgium’s Francois Englert have won the award for predicting the existence of the Higgs Boson. The pair theorized the particle existed back in the 1960s while trying to figure out the answer to the question of why matter has mass. Their theories on how subatomic particles acquire mass were confirmed last year in Geneva.

Higgs and Englert will now share a $1.25 million prize.