François Englert

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François Englert, is a Belgian physicist. He studied and got his PhD at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). From 1959 until 1961, he worked at Cornell University, after which he returned to the ULB and became a professor at the university. From 1980 up to 1998, together with Robert Brout, he was head of Theoretical Physics (Physique théorique) group of the ULB. He is one of the discoverers of the mechanism which is at the basis of all matter in our universe, the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. In 1982, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences. In 2004 he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, and in 2005 he was honored with a Doctor Honoris Causa of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).