9.55am BST

This is the second Nobel Prize of 2013 and, let’s face it, the most eagerly awaited prize announcement for some time. Has so much ever been written by so many before the award of a prize for physics? 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. But who gets the prize for that?

Theoretical physicists François 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. There are others who did similar work at around the same time, including Tom Kibble, Gerald Guralnik and Carl Richard Hagen. But the prize can only be split a maximum of three ways. Never mind the many thousands of deserving scientists who designed, built and carried out experiments at Cern's Large Hadron Collider.

In case you need a quick reminder of the situation, read my colleague Ian Sample’s many, many guides to the headache being faced by the Nobel committee when it comes to the Higgs discovery.

The committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will put us all out of our misery some time after 10:45am (BST). Watch this space.