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François Englert

b. 1932

François Englert (b. 1932) is a Belgian theoretical physicist who, with Robert Brout, proposed the mechanism that gives mass to elementary particles, now known as the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which was confirmed by the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN in 2012. His career has been marked by deep contributions to quantum field theory, spontaneous symmetry breaking, and cosmology.

Physics

Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons (with R. Brout, 1964)
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Higgs Mechanism (with R. Brout, 1964)
Cosmology and the Origin of Mass (various papers)
The Brout-Englert-Higgs Mechanism and Its Implications (Nobel lecture, 2013)

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