"Higgs, who is currently deliberating between the license plates
PART1CLE or H1GG5, said: 'In the place where I grew up, physics was the
only route out. I saw neighbourhood physicists in their sports cars and designer clothes and thought yeah, I gotta get some theories.'"
The Daily Mash report on Peter Higgs' decision to spend his Nobel Prize money on "a pimped-out SUV". Nice to know that despite all the praise and commendation, he's keeping it real.
(Thanks to Nick for the link.)
Thursday, October 10, 2013
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I got curious: the pictured car is a Hamann Motorsport Mystere, costing €180k before tax, or about £182k with tax. The current Nobel prize money is 8m SEK, or £770k, per full Nobel, so Higgs got £385k - which is enough to buy two.
Nice research there. Of course, he could have bought just the one and saved the rest for petrol money. And does that £182,000 include the cost of blue lights underneath and the hot tub in the back?
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