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Which institute did Françis Englert share the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award with?
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Belgian theoretical physicist Françis Englert shared the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research for their discovery of the Higgs boson, which has been called the "God particle". The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that is believed to be responsible for the mass of other subatomic particles.
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