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.

Thousands of scientists contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, and among them were some of South Africa’s brightest minds.

Physicists say they have found a new subatomic particle consistent with the "God particle" Higgs boson, which is believed to confer mass.

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.

The hunt is still on for the elusive "God particle" but scientists say they believe they can come up with an answer by the end of 2012.