Scientist won Nobel 49 years after predicting 'God Particle'
English theoretical physicist Peter Higgs, who turns 89 today, had independently predicted in 1964 the 'God Particle' Higgs boson, a subatomic particle which gives matter its mass. Higgs was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 with Belgian physicist FranÃ§ois Englert, after the boson was confirmed by two separate experiments at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory.