François Englert

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François Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanism that gives particles mass, central to the theory of the Higgs boson.


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instanceOf Nobel laureate
human
theoretical physicist
areaOfInfluence cosmology
high-energy physics
awardReceived High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics
J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics
surface form: "Sakurai Prize"
coAuthor Carl Hagen
surface form: "Carl Richard Hagen"

Gerald Guralnik
Peter Higgs
Robert Brout
Tom Kibble
continentOfCitizenship Europe
countryOfCitizenship Belgium
doctoralAdvisor Robert Brout
educatedAt Vrije Universiteit Brussel
surface form: "Université libre de Bruxelles"
employer Vrije Universiteit Brussel
surface form: "Université libre de Bruxelles"
familyName Englert
fieldOfWork particle physics
quantum field theory
theoretical physics
givenName François
hasAcademicDiscipline cosmology
physics
hasInfluenced standard model of particle physics
influencedBy gauge theory
quantum field theory
knownFor contributions to the theory of the Higgs boson
work on the mechanism that gives particles mass
languageSpoken French
memberOf Academia Europaea
Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
name François Englert
nationality Belgian
notableIdea mass generation mechanism for gauge bosons
spontaneous symmetry breaking in gauge theories
notableWork Higgs mechanism
surface form: "Englert–Brout–Higgs–Guralnik–Hagen–Kibble mechanism"

Higgs mechanism
occupation physicist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Etterbeek
sexOrGender male
sharesNobelPrizeWith Peter Higgs
Robert Brout
workLocation Brussels, Belgium
surface form: "Brussels"

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Robert Brout coAuthor François Englert
Carl Hagen coAuthorWith François Englert
Wolf Prize in Physics hasLaureate François Englert
Higgs field isPredictedBy François Englert
François Englert name François Englert
Higgs boson predictedBy François Englert
Higgs mechanism proposedBy François Englert

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