photo François Englert

François Englert

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2013
for 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 Collider
Together with: Peter Higgs
Citizenship
Belgium Belgium France 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
employer
  • Cornell University
  • Chapman University
  • Université libre de Bruxelles
  • Tel Aviv University
occupation
  • physicist
  • university teacher
  • theoretical physicist
field of work
  • theoretical physics
  • superstring theory
  • physics
  • cosmology
  • particle physics
educated at
  • Free University of Brussels
work location
  • Brussels
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