François Englert

François Englert is a Belgian physicist best known for his work on the Higgs boson, a particle crucial to the Standard Model of particle physics. In the early 1960s, Englert, alongside Robert Brout, proposed a theoretical framework explaining how particles acquire mass through a mechanism involving the Higgs field. This led to the prediction of the Higgs boson, which was discovered in 2012 at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Their work deepened our understanding of the fundamental forces and particles that make up the universe, earning Englert the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013.