Prof. François Englert
The Belgian theoretical particle physicists François Baron Englert is the 2013 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics and is currently Professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. He is also affiliated with the School of Physics and Astronomy of Tel Aviv University, Israel and the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University, USA. Prof. Englert was awarded many notable awards, such as the J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics in 2010, the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society in 1997. Peter W. Higgs and he were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 for "the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles."