Britain’s Peter Higgs and Francois Englert of Belgium have won the Nobel Prize for physics for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson particle.

A year since the discovery of a subatomic particle set the science world aflutter, evidence is mounting it may be the elusive Higgs boson.

Queen Elizabeth II has bestowed the bi-annual British honours. Recipients included a fashion designer, an illustrator and a scientist.

Scientists have found signs of the Higgs boson, an elementary sub-atomic particle thought to have played a vital role in the creation of the universe.