François Englert of Higgs boson fame passes away at 93
Nobel laureate and Belgian physicist François Englert has passed away at the age of 93. He is best known for his 1964 work on the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism, which explains how subatomic particles acquire mass.
Why it matters
Englert's theoretical work was fundamental to the Standard Model of particle physics and the eventual discovery of the Higgs boson.
The Belgian physicist and Nobel laureate François Englert passed away on June 18 aged 93. Englert’s contributions changed the way physicists understood the fundamental nature of the universe.
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