Discovering Physics.......... 5 Condensed Matter Seminar.... 6

It all began with a quest by physicists to understand the origin of mass for some fundamental particles though they should be massless theoretically. In 1964, the Belgian physicist François Englert from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, and his colleague Dr Robert Brout (who died in 2011) and the British physicist Peter Higgs from the University of Edinburgh proposed a mechanism that addressed this fundamental issue. Both Dr Englert and Dr Higgs won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 “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 ”