The Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced today at approximately 3:15 pm.

This is the second Nobel Prize of 2013 and the most eagerly awaited prize announcement for some time. The stand-out prediction for this year's Nobel has to be an award for last year's completion of the Standard Model of particle physics, with the disovery at Cern that the Higgs field is indeed real.

Theoretical physicists Franois Englert and Peter Higgs are the clear favourites. Englert was first to publish the idea, in 1964, of a field that interacted with fundamental particles and gave them mass; Higgs was the first to point out, merely a few weeks later, the potential existence of the eponymous boson, reports the Guardian.