François Englert, Nobel-winning pioneer of particle physics, dies at 93 (opens original article in a new tab)

Francois Englert, a Belgian physicist who won the 2013 Nobel Prize for his work on the Higgs boson, has died at 93. His theory, developed with Robert Brout, explained how particles gain mass through a universal field, leading to the 2012 discovery at CERN.

• Francois Englert, Nobel Prize winner in 2013 for Higgs boson research, died at 93.
• Englert and Peter Higgs independently developed the theory of the Higgs boson, leading to its 2012 discovery at CERN.
• Englert's work on the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism explained how particles acquire mass through interaction with a universal field.