supergee | It doesn't work that way (Reply)

From:

Discovering "stuff" doesn't earn you a science Nobel Prize. Explaining how things work gets Nobel prizes. Professor Higgs didn't discover the Higgs boson, he and his colleagues[1] predicted it from other results and figured out what it should be like and when it was actually "discovered" i.e. proved to exist by the nice folks at CERN he got the Nobel Prize then.

[1]There were three winners of the Nobel for the Higgs boson work, the original paper had, I think, 23 names but the three winners were the leads who got the glory. Prof. Higgs got his name on the numberplate.