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Death of Nobel Laureate Francois Englert
📅 Published 25 Jun 2026 · june 2026
Death of Nobel Laureate Francois Englert
Age: 93 years.
Date: 18 June 2026.
Country: Belgium.
Contribution:
Theoretical physicist behind the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson.
Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 with Peter Higgs.
Background:
Proposed the Brout–Englert-Higgs mechanism explaining how particles acquire mass.
Studied at Université libre de Bruxelles; brief stint at Cornell University.
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UPSC