Video News Release

Geneva, 8 October 2013. CERN physicists from ATLAS and CMS celebrated at CERN the award of the Nobel Prize in physics 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.” The announcement by the ATLAS and CMS experiments took place on 4 July 2012 at CERN. Members of the ATLAS and CMS collaborations present at CERN on Oct. 8 assembled in their building (b. 40) on the CERN Meyrin site to watch the live webcast from Stockholm. This VNR shows the physicists waiting for the announcement, celebrating the announcement and listening to a short spontaneous speech by CERN’s director general Rolf Heuer, who congratulated the theoretical physicists for the award and the experimental physicists at CERN for their discovery.