Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

Professor François Englert has received a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of the Higgs boson. This award is shared jointly with Professor Peter W. Higgs.

In May, Professor Englert, of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, gave the 2013 Dirac Lecture, established jointly by St John's College and the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Mathematics. The lecture, entitled 'The Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism and its scalar boson', included consideration of his work with Professor Robert Brout in 1964 and, independently, the work of Professor Peter Higgs, which led to the postulation of the existence of scalar bosons (or BEH bosons), subsequently validated by the discovery of the fundamental particle at CERN in 2012.