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Who was Englert's co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics?

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Yoichiro Nambu
Steven Weinberg
Peter Higgs

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Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist who, along with Francois Englert, proposed the Higgs mechanism, a theory that describes how particles acquire mass. The Higgs mechanism is the basis for the Standard Model of particle physics, which is the current best theory of how the universe works. Englert and Higgs were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the Higgs mechanism.