Robert Brout31 August 1964
Coauthors with Francois Englert the Physical Review Letters paper Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons.
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Coauthors with Francois Englert the Physical Review Letters paper Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons.
Publishes with Robert Brout the first 1964 gauge-symmetry paper establishing a mechanism by which gauge vector bosons can acquire mass.
Shares the Wolf Prize in Physics with Francois Englert and Peter Higgs for the theoretical mechanism underlying gauge-particle mass generation.
Shares the Wolf Prize in Physics with Robert Brout and Peter Higgs for pioneering work on mass generation through broken gauge symmetry.
Shares the J. J. Sakurai Prize with five other theorists for elucidating spontaneous symmetry breaking and consistent vector-boson mass generation.
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics after CERN measurements confirm a particle associated with the symmetry-breaking mechanism proposed in 1964.
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