Nobel

Next Tuesday, Nobel prize in Physics will be announced. The announcement will be broadcast from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

To my surprise, I have been reading several articles (see e.g. this one) forecasing this year Nobel prize to Peter Higgs and even tring to anticipate whom he will share the prize with. IMHO, it would be a huge mistake if Higgs eventually is awarded this year. Obviously, not that this prize wouldn't be well deserved and all, but it has been a few months since the CERN results were announced and several other measurements are in order to understand the nature of this new boson. Given the known policy of Nobel prizes (i.e. regardless the importance of possible theoretical breakthroughs, the latter must be supported by experiments*), such nomination this year would be definitely premature. Anyway, it wouldn't be the first time the Nobel committe suprises the community (see the recent case with Cabibbo)... so one never knows...let's wait one day more for the verdict.