'What news?': How Higgs found out he won the Nobel Prize for physics

Friday, October 11, 2013 - 21:50 in Astronomy & Space

LONDON — It took a state-of-the-art accelerator to prove his theories right, but Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs says he learned of his award in physics the old-fashioned way: Word on the street.

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