Robert Brout
Robert Brout | |
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Cosmic inflation | |
Awards | Sakurai Prize Wolf Prize in Physics (2004) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistical mechanics Quantum field theory Particle physics Cosmology |
Institutions | Université libre de Bruxelles University of Rochester Cornell University |
Robert Brout (
Research
After receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1953 Brout joined Cornell University as faculty. In 1959 François Englert visiting from Belgium spent two years at Cornell as a research associate with Brout. Brout and Englert became close friends and collaborators, and in 1961 when Englert returned to Belgium Brout followed him and spent the rest of his professional life at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and ultimately acquired Belgian citizenship.
In 1964, Brout, in collaboration with
In 1971,
In addition to this work on elementary particle physics, in 1978, Brout, in collaboration with F. Englert and
Awards
Brout was awarded the 2010
Robert Brout contributed greatly to the theory behind the Higgs Boson, for which the 2013 Nobel Prize was awarded. In a 2014 interview with BBC's The Life Scientific Peter Higgs says of the 2013 Nobel Prize that "I think it's good that they restricted the prize to the two of us, because, by implication, they're recognizing Robert Brout as the third who couldn't be awarded the prize."[10]
References
- ^ Biography of Robert Brout Physics Today. August 2011. Retrieved July 5, 2012.
- ^ Physical Review Letters - 50th Anniversary Milestone Papers
- ^ Contributions of Robert Brout Retrieved August 6, 2007. Archived February 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Wolf prize goes to particle theorists". Physics World. January 20, 2004. Retrieved August 6, 2007.
- ^ "CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson" (Press release). July 4, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
- ^ The Nobel Prize in Physics 1999 Retrieved August 6, 2007.
- ^ Gravity Research Foundation Awards Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved May 24, 2008.
- ^ American Physical Society - J. J. Sakurai Prize Winners Retrieved October 2, 2009.
- ^ The Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 Retrieved August 6, 2007.
- ^ Interview with Peter Higgs on BBC's The Life Scientific BBC News. Retrieved August 6, 2007.