Peter Higgs won Nobel Prize 49 years after predicting Higgs boson
English physicist Peter Higgs in a 1964 paper independently predicted the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle which gives matter its mass. Higgs' paper was initially rejected citing "it did not warrant rapid publication". In 2012, the particle was confirmed by experiments at CERN's 27-km-long accelerator LHC. Higgs was then jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8, 2013.