Fran%C3%A7ois Englert
Franois Baron Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel prize laureate . He is Professor emeritus at the Universit libre de Bruxelles where he is member of the Service de Physique Thorique. He is 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.160J.160Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics , the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society in 1997 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons. He has made contributions in statistical physics, quantum field theory, cosmology, string theory and supergravity. He is the recipient of the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award in technical and scientific research, together with Peter Higgs and the CERN.
Franois Englert is a Holocaust survivor. He was born in a Belgian Jewish family. During the German occupation of Belgium in World War II, he had to conceal his Jewish identity and live in orphanages and childrens homes in the towns of Dinant, Lustin, Stoumont and, finally, AnnevoieRouillon. These towns were eventually liberated by the US Army.
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