1932 - Today
François, Baron Englert (French: [ɑ̃ɡlɛʁ]; born 6 November 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate. He is Professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) where he is 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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Englert has received more than 200,529 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). François Englert is the 139th most popular physicist (down from 129th in 2019), the 72nd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 59th 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, François Englert ranks 139 out of 721. Before him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Paul Langevin, Laura Bassi, Alfred Kastler, Maurice Wilkins, and Julius von Mayer. After him are Owen Chamberlain, Hans Bethe, Roger Penrose, Ilya Frank, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Frits Zernike.
1742 - 1799
HPI: 73.64
Rank: 133
1872 - 1946
HPI: 73.59
Rank: 134
1711 - 1778
HPI: 73.55
Rank: 135
1902 - 1984
HPI: 73.54
Rank: 136
1916 - 2004
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 137
1814 - 1878
HPI: 73.48
Rank: 138
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 139
1920 - 2006
HPI: 73.45
Rank: 140
1906 - 2005
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 141
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.40
Rank: 142
1908 - 1990
HPI: 73.38
Rank: 143
1799 - 1864
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 144
1888 - 1966
HPI: 73.22
Rank: 145
Among people born in 1932, François Englert ranks 31. Before him are Roy Scheider, Camilo Cienfuegos, Miriam Makeba, Ted Kennedy, Michel Legrand, and Roh Tae-woo. After him are Ellen Burstyn, Oliver E. Williamson, Louis Malle, Carlos Saura, Raisa Gorbacheva, and Donald Rumsfeld.
1932 - 2008
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 25
1932 - 1959
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 26
1932 - 2008
HPI: 73.90
Rank: 27
1932 - 2009
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 28
1932 - 2019
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 29
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.57
Rank: 30
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 31
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 32
1932 - 2020
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 33
1932 - 1995
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 34
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.20
Rank: 35
1932 - 1999
HPI: 73.06
Rank: 36
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 37
Among people born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 72 out of 899. Before him are Hubert van Eyck (1366), Paul-Henri Spaak (1899), Quentin Matsys (1466), Father Damien (1840), Adolphe Quetelet (1796), and Herman Van Rompuy (1947). After him are Maxime Weygand (1867), Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Paul Delvaux (1897), Ernest Solvay (1838), Ambiorix (-100), and Pieter Claesz (1596).
1366 - 1426
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 66
1899 - 1972
HPI: 74.27
Rank: 67
1466 - 1530
HPI: 74.26
Rank: 68
1840 - 1889
HPI: 74.23
Rank: 69
1796 - 1874
HPI: 73.81
Rank: 70
1947 - Present
HPI: 73.63
Rank: 71
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 72
1867 - 1965
HPI: 73.23
Rank: 73
1927 - 2005
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 74
1897 - 1994
HPI: 72.84
Rank: 75
1838 - 1922
HPI: 72.82
Rank: 76
100 BC - 53 BC
HPI: 72.79
Rank: 77
1596 - 1660
HPI: 72.76
Rank: 78
Among physicists born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 2. Before him are Georges Lemaître (1894). After him are Joseph Plateau (1801), Étienne-Gaspard Robert (1763), and Théophile de Donder (1872).
1894 - 1966
HPI: 78.33
Rank: 1
1932 - Present
HPI: 73.47
Rank: 2
1801 - 1883
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 3
1763 - 1837
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 4
1872 - 1957
HPI: 60.04
Rank: 5