[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 140 (Wednesday, October 9, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6430]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    RECOGNIZING NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS PETER HIGGS AND FRANCOIS ENGLERT

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate the 
scientists at Fermilab in my district for their work to find the Higgs 
particle.
  Yesterday, Peter Higgs and Francois Englert were awarded the Nobel 
Prize in physics for independently proposing a theory for the Higgs 
boson. That theory, initially rejected in the 1960s, led the high-
energy physics community on a decades-long quest to find the particle 
that gives mass to matter.
  While this discovery has been largely credited to CERN in Europe, 
America has been a leading force in the fundamental science that made 
identifying the Higgs possible.
  Hundreds of scientists from my district are working actively on 
experiments at CERN. They played a leadership role building the Large 
Hadron Collider. We should all congratulate these scientists for 
advancing the basic understanding of our universe necessary for forging 
ahead into the next great frontier.
  America is made great by our leadership in discovery sciences, so 
let's show them the support necessary to continue and expand our own 
science ecosystem.

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