At a ceremony at the Knesset in Jerusalem on 9 May, Robert Brout, François Englert, and Peter W. Higgs will jointly receive the Wolf Prize in Physics and Harry B. Gray, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. These prizes, together with awards in agriculture, the arts, and medicine, will be conferred by Moshe Katsav, president of Israel. Each Wolf Prize is worth $100 000. The three physicists will share the cash award and Gray will receive the entire amount.

Brout, professor emeritus at the Free University of Brussels (ULB), Englert, professor emeritus at ULB and senior professor at Tel Aviv University, and Higgs, professor emeritus at Edinburgh University, are being recognized for their “pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of subatomic particles,” according to the citation. In 1964, Brout and Englert explained how...

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