Francois Englert

• Peter Higgs discovered Nobel win news through ex-neighbour

  Professor Peter Higgs only found out he had won the Nobel Prize for Physics when a former neighbour congratulated him on the news, he said Friday.

• Boson's naming after Satyendra Nath Bose bigger honour than Nobel, say Indian physicists

  Prominent Indian physicists say that naming of the 'God particle' Boson after Indian scientist Satyendra Nath Bose is the biggest honour.

• Peter Higgs and Francois Englert: men behind the 'God particle'

  For someone who helped unleash the first great scientific discovery of the 21st century, Britain's Peter Higgs is a remarkably low-tech man.

• Nobel physics laureate Peter Higgs 'overwhelmed'

  British scientist Peter Higgs said he was "overwhelmed" after he and his Belgian colleague Francois Englert were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their work on the Higgs Boson particle.

• Peter Higgs, Francois Englert win physics Nobel for particle mass

  Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theory on how the most basic building blocks of the universe acquire mass, eventually forming the world we know today.