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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 292,776 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). François Englert is the 137th most popular physicist (up from 139th in 2019), the 73rd most popular biography from Belgium (down from 72nd 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 137 out of 717Before him are Maurice Wilkins, Ernest Lawrence, Igor Tamm, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Albert Fert. After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot, Jacques Charles, Frits Zernike, Hideki Yukawa, Robert Coleman Richardson, and Felix Bloch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, François Englert ranks 30Before him are Raisa Gorbacheva, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Makeba, Camilo Cienfuegos, Michel Legrand, and Anthony Perkins. After him are Carlos Saura, Donald Rumsfeld, Ted Kennedy, Adolfo Suárez, Ellen Burstyn, and Jean-Pierre Cassel.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 73 out of 1,019Before him are Petrus Christus (1410), Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (1559), Maxime Weygand (1867), Dominique Pire (1910), Quentin Matsys (1466), and Herman Van Rompuy (1947). After him are Adolphe Quetelet (1796), Ambiorix (-100), Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927), Jacky Ickx (1945), Ernest Solvay (1838), and Hubert van Eyck (1366).

Among PHYSICISTS In Belgium

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