John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to learn that the Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to
Peter W. Higgs and François Englert.
Professor Peter W. Higgs, of the University of Edinburgh, U.K., and
Professor François Englert, of Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium,
were honored for their theoretical discovery of the ‘Higgs Boson’, a
discovery which was confirmed by CERN (The European Organization for
Nuclear Research) in 2012.
Professor Higgs published with Wiley at the start of his illustrious
career, presenting three research papers related to his PhD thesis in Acta
Crystallographica.
To celebrate the achievements of the Nobel winners, Wiley will be making
a selection of content from this year’s winners of Nobel Prizes free to
access until the end of the year. Please visit the Nobel
Prize page on Wiley Online Library for more information and to
access content, which will be updated throughout the award period.
