Biography:François Englert
| François Englert | |
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| Englert | |
| Born | 6 November 1932 Etterbeek, Belgium
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| Known for | Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism |
| Awards | Nobel Prize in Physics (2013) |
François Englert (born 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist known for the mechanism that explains how elementary particles can acquire mass through a scalar field.
Higgs mechanism
Englert and Robert Brout proposed a spontaneous symmetry breaking mechanism in gauge theory. Related work by Peter Higgs and others led to what is now called the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism or Higgs mechanism.
The 2012 discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN confirmed a central part of the Standard Model. Englert shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Higgs.
Quantum Collection links
- Physics:Quantum Higgs boson
- Physics:Quantum boson
- Physics:Quantum elementary particle
- Physics:Quantum Standard Model
References
- "François Englert - Biographical". Nobel Prize Outreach. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2013/englert/biographical/.
- Englert, F.; Brout, R. (1964). "Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons". Physical Review Letters 13 (9): 321-323. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.13.321.
Author: Harold Foppele