1932 - Today
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, François Englert ranks 137 out of 717. Before 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.
1916 - 2004
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 131
1901 - 1958
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 132
1895 - 1971
HPI: 65.89
Rank: 133
1839 - 1903
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 134
1799 - 1864
HPI: 65.82
Rank: 135
1938 - Present
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 136
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 137
1774 - 1862
HPI: 65.70
Rank: 138
1763 - 1823
HPI: 65.64
Rank: 139
1888 - 1966
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 140
1907 - 1981
HPI: 65.56
Rank: 141
1937 - 2013
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 142
1905 - 1983
HPI: 65.54
Rank: 143
Among people born in 1932, François Englert ranks 30. Before 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.
1932 - 1999
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 24
1932 - Present
HPI: 66.91
Rank: 25
1932 - 2008
HPI: 66.28
Rank: 26
1932 - 1959
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 27
1932 - 2019
HPI: 66.02
Rank: 28
1932 - 1992
HPI: 65.93
Rank: 29
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 30
1932 - 2023
HPI: 65.63
Rank: 31
1932 - 2021
HPI: 65.14
Rank: 32
1932 - 2009
HPI: 65.10
Rank: 33
1932 - 2014
HPI: 65.01
Rank: 34
1932 - Present
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 35
1932 - 2007
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 36
Among people born in Belgium, François Englert ranks 73 out of 1,019. Before 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).
1410 - 1475
HPI: 66.47
Rank: 67
1559 - 1632
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 68
1867 - 1965
HPI: 66.21
Rank: 69
1910 - 1969
HPI: 65.91
Rank: 70
1466 - 1530
HPI: 65.76
Rank: 71
1947 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 72
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 73
1796 - 1874
HPI: 65.36
Rank: 74
100 BC - 53 BC
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 75
1927 - 2005
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 76
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 77
1838 - 1922
HPI: 64.57
Rank: 78
1366 - 1426
HPI: 64.37
Rank: 79
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), Théophile de Donder (1872), and Léon Rosenfeld (1904).
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 1
1932 - Present
HPI: 65.72
Rank: 2
1801 - 1883
HPI: 60.80
Rank: 3
1763 - 1837
HPI: 48.98
Rank: 4
1872 - 1957
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 5
1904 - 1974
HPI: 41.72
Rank: 6