François Englert
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2013for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron ColliderTogether with: Peter Higgs
- Citizenship
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Belgium
France
- Languages
- English, French
- date of birth
- 11/6/1932
- place of birth
- Etterbeek
- date of death
- 6/18/2026
- place of death
- Uccle
- Lived
- 93 years
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- employer
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- Cornell University
- Chapman University
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- Tel Aviv University
- occupation
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- physicist
- university teacher
- theoretical physicist
- field of work
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- theoretical physics
- superstring theory
- physics
- cosmology
- particle physics
- educated at
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- Free University of Brussels
- work location
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- Brussels