François Englert

François Englert, 93, died on June 18, 2026. François Englert was known publicly as a Belgian theoretical physicist. François, Baron Englert (French:; born 6 November 1932 - 18 June 2026) was a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate. Englert was professor emeritus at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where he was a member of the Service de Physique Théorique. He was 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. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (with Gerry Guralnik, C. Hagen, Tom Kibble, Peter Higgs, and Robert Brout), the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 (with Brout and Higgs) and the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society (with Brout and Higgs) in 1997 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons. Public biographical listings identify Englert as a Belgian theoretical physicist. This public record remains centered on Englert's work as a Belgian theoretical physicist and the documented milestones of that career.