Professor Peter Higgs poses for a photograph following a news conference in the Playfair Library at the University of Edinburgh, after winning the Nobel Prize for physics, Scotland October 11, 2013. Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium won the Nobel Prize for physics on October 8 for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle that explains how elementary matter attained the mass to form stars and planets. REUTERS/Russell Cheyne (BRITAIN - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION)