Belgian Nobel Laureate Englert Lauds Late Colleague Brout 8 October 2013

Belgian Nobel laureate Englert lauds late colleague Brout 8 October 2013

Belgian scientist Francois Englert said his Last year, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN happiness Tuesday at winning the Nobel Prize for finally provided the experimental proof to back up Physics was tempered with regret that life-long the theory and Englert paid tribute to all the colleague Robert Brout could not enjoy the plaudits scientists, including Higgs, who had helped solve too. the great puzzle of modern physics.

"Of course I am happy to have won the prize, that Englert said he and his colleagues all understood goes without saying, but there is regret too that my the importance of their work but the idea that they colleague and friend, Robert Brout, is not there to one day would win the Nobel prize had never been share it," Englert told a press conference at the an issue. Free University of Brussels (ULB). Asked what comes next, he replied: "There are Robert Brout died in 2011, having begun the huge numbers of problems still be solved. This just search for the elusive Higgs Boson—the "God marks a step in our understanding of the world." particle"—with Englert in the 1960s at the ULB. © 2013 AFP "It was a very long collaboration, it was a friendship. I was with Robert until his death," Englert said.

Now 80 but still working, the bespectacled and bearded professor responded in good humour to questions, joking about the delay in the announcement.

With no news for an hour, Englert said he had thought it was not to be but "we decided just the same to have a party... with banana-toasts which my grandchildren thought was a well-deserved prize for my cooking (instead)!"

The Royal Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel jointly to Englert and British scientist Peter Higgs for their work on the boson and its role in giving mass to matter as the Universe cooled after the Big Bang.

The Nobel jury said the prize recognised "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."

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