During his Nobel Prize banquet speech, 2013 physics laureate Peter Higgs reflected on the decades of research – and the many individuals – whose work contributed to understanding the origin of subatomic particle mass. Among those whose insights shaped this achievement was Robert Brout, whose collaboration with François Englert laid the theoretical foundations of what is now known as the Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) mechanism. Although Brout did not live to see the Higgs boson’s discovery or share i

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"Narrative is radical, creating us at the very moment it is being created." In Toni Morrison's Nobel Prize lecture she reflected on the power of language, the necessity of remembrance, and the radical act of telling our own stories. The 1993 literature prize was awarded to Morrison, “who in novels characterised by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality”. Read or listen to the full lecture: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morriso