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François Englert

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Englert is the 169th most popular physicist (down from 127th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 58th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Belgian Physicist.

François Englert is most famous for his work on the Higgs boson particle.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, François Englert ranks 169 out of 851. Before him are Augustin-Jean Fresnel, Georges Charpak, Gerd Binnig, Ernst Abbe, Paul Langevin, and Hideki Yukawa. After him are George E. Smith, Polykarp Kusch, Edmond Becquerel, Martinus J. G. Veltman, Leon Cooper, and James Jeans.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, François Englert ranks 22. Before him are Abebe Bikila, Anouk Aimée, Peter O'Toole, Sylvia Plath, Miriam Makeba, and Fernando Botero. After him are Glenn Gould, Raisa Gorbacheva, Tiny Tim, Dian Fossey, Sirikit, and Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 68 out of 1,190. Before him are Marguerite Yourcenar (1903), Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Dominique Pire (1910), Isabella of Austria (1501), Léon Degrelle (1906), and Jacob Jordaens (1593). After him are Django Reinhardt (1910), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Gerard de Ridefort (1141), Maxime Weygand (1867), and Quentin Matsys (1466).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

Among physicists born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 2. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894). After him are Joseph Plateau (1801), Théophile de Donder (1872), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), Léon Rosenfeld (1904), and Conny Aerts (1966).

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