Interview: 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics

An interview was held with Professor Olga Botner, member of the Nobel Committee for Physics following the announcement. The interviewer is freelance journalist Joanna Rose.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 was awarded jointly to François Englert and Peter W. Higgs "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"

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"Sometimes You Have to Wait 50 Years ..."
 Immediately following the announcement, Professor Olga Botner was interviewed by freelance journalist Joanna Rose regarding the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics.

[sayaindo]

Congratulations to both Francoise Englert and Peter Higgs, I am from Indonesia.

[kallecentergren]

but she is right in that we need to test if the teory matches nature.
when you say that "the committee should value slightly higher of the theoretical work" ceep in mind that they did give the prize to the theorists and not the experimentalist at cern.

[zy]

It is interesting to hear Professor Olga Botner saying "I am an experimentalist, so my altitude towards the theorists are uhmm... ". I think both branches are vitally important. Maybe the committee should value slightly higher of the theoretical work as well, than they do in the past several decades. Congrats to the new winners. Also to professor Guralnk, you have also contributed significantly to the theory. (Feeling Motivated!!)