François Englert

François Englert, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1932-11-06 in Etterbeek, Belgium

Gender: male

Field: Belgian theoretical physicist

Biography

François, Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

Awarded on: 2013-10-08

"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"

Affiliations:

  • Université Libre de BruxellesBrussels, Belgium