Nobel Prize for Higgs discovery

Summary: By now you have probably heard that the Nobel Prize was awarded to Doctors Higgs and Englert for the correct prediction of the existence of a particle to explain mass. While the two of them will split the prize money, it is painfully obvious that this would have been impossible to confirm without the help from thousands of other scientists who will get nothing. Aside, from of course the pride and recognition within the science community which is nothing to scoff at.
I think one of the most adorable things is that Professor Higgs didn't know he had won until a woman congratulated him on the street. He was also very humble when acknowledging not only the experimentalists who proved it, but the other theorists who had reached the conclusion at the same time as him and helped to make it better.



BBC News
New York Times 1 (about the Nobel Prize)
New York Times 2 (Opinion piece on the Nobel prize only going to two theorists)