Who Won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics and Why Not Others?

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs for their contributions to the understanding of the Higgs mechanism. Notably, Robert Brout, Gerald Guralnik, Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble, who also contributed significantly, were not awarded due to the Nobel Prize's limitation of recognizing only living individuals and a maximum of three laureates. Brout, a colleague of Englert, had passed away prior to the award, highlighting the inherent limitations in recognizing all contributors in groundbreaking discoveries.

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The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was just awarded to Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs.

Why were they chosen over Robert Brout, Gerald Guralnik, Richard Hagen and Tom Kibble who published similar results at about the same time.
 
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The prize is only awarded to living persons, for one thing. I believe Brout was a colleague of Englert and is no longer with us. Don't know about the others. Second, there is a max of 3.

Inevitably, there are important contributors who cannot be recognized with almost any discovery. Or somehow are left behind. J.S. Bell died before he could be nominated, for example. I personally believe he would have won by now.
 

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