Nobel winner learned of prize on the street

LONDON — It took a state-of-the-art accelerator to prove his theories right, but Nobel Prize winner Peter Higgs says he learned of his award in physics the old-fashioned way: Word on the street.

Higgs says he was walking down the street in Edinburgh when a former neighbor got out of her car to congratulate him on the news.

"I said, 'Oh, what news?'" Higgs told reporters on Friday.

The Nobel couldn't have come as a complete surprise. Higgs was widely tipped to win the prize after his theory about how subatomic particles get their mass was proven right by experiments at CERN, a giant particle accelerator on the Franco-Swiss border.

Higgs, speaking at a press conference in the Scottish capital, stressed that other theorists werecollected Danish police and some Norwegians, 1,200 in all, from the camps at Torgau, Mühlberg and Oschatz near Leipzig. The Danish policemen were taken to Denmark in two columns between 3 and 5 April; on 23 April around 1,000 of these were sent to Sweden.

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