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François Englert

1932 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of François Englert has received more than 330,951 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). François Englert is the 127th most popular physicist (up from 137th in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 73rd 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 127 out of 851. Before him are Isamu Akasaki, Javier Solana, Isidor Isaac Rabi, Julius von Mayer, C. V. Raman, and Val Logsdon Fitch. After him are Robert Coleman Richardson, Arno Allan Penzias, Frits Zernike, Ernst Abbe, Laura Bassi, and Felix Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, François Englert ranks 21. Before him are Miriam Makeba, Fernando Botero, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Víctor Jara, Anouk Aimée, and Sylvia Plath. After him are Dian Fossey, Roh Tae-woo, Glenn Gould, Anthony Perkins, Anatoliy Solovianenko, and Carlos Saura.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 58 out of 1,190. Before him are Isabella of Austria (1501), Adolphe Sax (1814), Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (1864), Pepin of Landen (585), Django Reinhardt (1910), and Jacob Jordaens (1593). After him are Léon Degrelle (1906), James Ensor (1860), Hugo van der Goes (1440), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Jan Baptist van Helmont (1580), and Maxime Weygand (1867).

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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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