François Englert

Belgian theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize laureate

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François Englert is a physicist born on November 6, 1932. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates collection and the Nobel Physics collection. Englert has received one Nobel Prize.

His work is referenced by 475 other encyclopedia articles. He has an Erdős number of 7. Information about him is described at a URL hosted by the Université libre de Bruxelles.

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It is catalogued under topics including 1932 births, Belgian barons and Belgian Holocaust survivors.

Its subject is documented across 72 Wikipedia language editions.

Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Physics2013
“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”
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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: François
Gender: male
Citizenship: Belgium
Place of birth: Etterbeek
Occupation: theoretical physicist
Educated at: Free University of Brussels
Employer: Chapman University
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: French
Award: Clarivate Citation Laureates
Noble title: baron
Field of work: cosmology
Image: Francois Englert (3x4 cropped).jpg

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Commons category: François Englert
date of birth: 1932-11-06
Erdős number: 7
name in native language: François Englert
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
described at URL: www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/physth/people_FEnglert.html
interested in: physics

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Encyclopedic overview

François, Baron Englert ( French: [ɑ̃ɡlɛʁ]; born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.

Englert is professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he is a member of the Service de Physique Théorique. He is also a Sackler Professor by Special Appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He was awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (with Gerry Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, and Robert Brout), the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 (with Brout and Higgs) and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society (with Brout and Higgs) in 1997 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons.

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