The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 107 times to 196 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2013. This year the prize was awarded jointly to François Englert (Belgium) and Peter W. Higgs (Britain) "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".
This Nobel was awarded for findings that included significant Italian contributions. Italian physicists Guido Tonelli and Fabiola Gianotti were among the researchers whose work deeply contributed to the development of independent theories elaborated by the winners almost 50 years ago.
Fonte: L'italo-Americano
