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