Nobel Prize in Physics:
Peter Higgs of Britain and Francois Englert of Belgium
- "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"
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine:
The prize was shared by Americans James E. Rothman of Yale and Randy W. Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley and German-American Dr. Thomas C. Sudhof of the Stanford University School of Medicine.
- "for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells".
