François Englert, who has died aged 93, was a Belgian theoretical physicist awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics, ...

The Nobel Prizes are arguably the world’s most prestigious recognition anyone can receive for their work in the sciences, medicine, literature, or for world peace. For most winners, getting the call ...

On Tuesday morning, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs, for monumental theories that helped to solidify and confirm the Standard Model of particle physics.

STOCKHOLM — Physicists Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass.

The awarded theory is a central part of the Standard Model of particle physics that describes how the world is constructed. According to the Standard Model, every­thing, from flowers and people to ...

Belgian physicist Francois Englert reacts as he appears at the balcony of his house in Brussels October 8, 2013, after he and Britain's Peter Higgs won the 2013 Nobel prize for physics.Yves Herman / ...

For decades, physicists searched for a missing piece of nature's puzzle, an elusive particle believed to explain why matter has mass. Nicknamed the "God particle", the Higgs boson became one of the ...