Satyendra Nath Bose Laid Foundation For Nobel Prize Winning Work

Higgs and Englert have shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.

The Nobel was awarded to the two scientists "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," said Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Earlier this year, researchers operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator confirmed that a particle discovered in the experiment is indeed the Higgs Boson, a key element in scientists' theories explaining the makeup of all matter.

However, Professor Bikash Sinha and Bose Institute director Sibaji Raha here Tuesday expressed their displeasure at four other researchers missing out on the prize.

Raha regretted that four other contributors -- Robert Brout, Gerald Guralnik, C. Richard Hagen and Tom Kibble -- did not get recognition for their "equally significant" work on the same subject.

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