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François Englert
| Full Name of the recipient | François Englert |
|---|---|
| Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
| Year of Award | 2013 |
| Share in Award | 50.0% |
| Award Shared with | Peter W. Higgs (50.0%) |
| Motivation for the Award | for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider |
| Affiliation at the Time of Award | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium |
| Place of Birth | Etterbeek, Belgium BEL |
| Date of Birth | 6 November 1932 |
| Age at the time of Award | 80 years |
