Professor Peter Higgs, the scientist who gave his name to the Higgs boson particle, says he is “overwhelmed” to have won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

British physicist Peter Higgs and Francois Englert, of Belgium, have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

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American Roger Kornberg won the 2006 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, honoured in Sweden for his work on how information stored within a gene is copied and transferred to the parts of cells that produce proteins.

Americans Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon today shared the Nobel Prize in chemistry.