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2026-06-19 23:32:17

With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - home.cern/francois-englert-193 - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...