François, Baron Englert was a Belgian theoretical physicist and 2013 Nobel Prize laureate. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, announced October 8, 2013. François Englert and Peter Higgs, “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN's Large Hadron Collider”. François Englert: born 1932, Etterbeek, Belgium. Peter Higgs: born 1929, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).