What prestigious award did François Englert receive in 2013?
The Shaw Prize
The Fields Medal
The Nobel Prize in Physics
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Answer
François Englert was a Belgian theoretical physicist who shared the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics with Peter Higgs for Theoretical discovery of the Higgs boson. The Higgs boson is a subatomic particle that is thought to be responsible for the mass of other subatomic particles. It was first observed at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in 2012.
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