Physicist Francois Englert, Co-Discoverer of Higgs Particle, Dies

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Published: 2026-06-20
Category: science
Source: The Copenhagen Post
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Francois Englert, a Belgian theoretical physicist, has died at the age of 93. He was a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pivotal research on the Higgs particle. Englert's work significantly advanced the understanding of how particles acquire mass in the universe.

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