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Where is François Englert a professor emeritus?

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Université libre de Bruxelles
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François Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor emeritus at Université libre de Bruxelles. He is best known for his work on the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism, which provides a theoretical explanation for the mass of fundamental particles, such as the electron and the proton. This work was recognized with the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics, which he shared with Peter Higgs.