Peter Higgs receives his Nobel Prize for physics in Stockholm

British physicist Peter Higgs received his Nobel Prize for physics at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday. King Carl Gustav presented Higgs with his Nobel medal -- shared by Francois Englert for work on the Higgs boson -- at the Stockholm Concert Hall, the BBC reported. In the 1960s, Higgs and Englert proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of all matter in the Universe have mass, a mechanism that predicted the elementary particle that was dubbed the Higgs boson. It was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider in Europe. Higgs, who was at Edinburgh University when he came up with the theory, said no university would employ him today because he would not be considered sufficiently "productive" in a "publish or perish" academic environment. He doubted a breakthrough similar to his could be made in today's academic culture, he said. "It's difficult to imagine how I would ever have enough peace and quiet in the present sort of climate to do what I did in 1964," he told The Guardian.