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François Englert
François Englert · Bengt Nyman from Vaxholm, Sweden, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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François Englert

1932 – 2026 · aged 94

Belgian theoretical physicist (1932–2026)

Born
6 Nov 1932 · Etterbeek
Died
18 Jun 2026 · Uccle
Part ofBelgium54 BCE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 108 years
  1. 6 Nov 1932BornBorn in Etterbeek
  2. 1982AwardFrancqui Prize
  3. 1997AwardHigh Energy and Particle Physics Prize
  4. 2004AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Mons
  5. 2004AwardWolf Prize in Physics
  6. 2005AwardHonorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  7. 2010AwardSakurai Prize
  8. 2013AwardClarivate Citation Laureates
  9. 2013AwardHonorary doctorate at the Blaise-Pascal university
  10. 2013AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  11. 2013AwardPrincess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
  12. 2014AwardHonorary doctor of the Peking University
  13. 2014AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Edinburgh
  14. 18 Jun 2026DiedDied in Uccle

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1932 – 2026).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

François, Baron Englert (French: [ɑ̃ɡlɛʁ]; 6 November 1932 – 18 June 2026) was a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate.

Englert was professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he was a member of the Service de Physique Théorique. He was 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. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, and Robert Brout), the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 (with Brout and Higgs) and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society (with Brout and Higgs) in 1997 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons.

Englert made contributions in statistical physics, quantum field theory, cosmology, string theory, and supergravity. He was the recipient of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research, together with Peter Higgs and CERN.

Englert was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Peter Higgs for the discovery of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism.

Text from the Wikipedia article François Englert, CC BY-SA 4.0

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