Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize in Physics 2013: Five questions

(0:00) How did you learn that you had received the prize? (1:18) Can you describe your work in simple terms? (4:19) Would you explain the standard model? (6:15) Did you realise that you had made a breakthrough? (10:15) Can you tell us a bit about your scientific career? Peter Higgs received the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”