No Wisdom without Folly
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This book is a biography of François Englert, the first Belgian Nobel Laureate in Physics. Jointly awarded to him and British physicist Peter Higgs, the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics was celebrated for the understanding of the origin of massive particles in the emerging Universe, one of the most important breakthroughs in Physics in the second half of the 20th century.
From his childhood as the son of Jewish emigrants, a "hidden child" during the Second World War, a rebellious youth — still a rebel fond of poetry and music, aware of the "sound and fury" of the world — to his achievements as a physicist and his contributions that won the Nobel Prize, readers will find the life story of François Englert imbued with the epitome of resilience. The epilogue further expresses Englert\'s philosophical and scientific standpoints about the future of Physics.
Although written with a great concern for scientific accuracy, the book\'s primary goal is to offer the lay reader an accessible account of the life and scientific work of François Englert. This is to address the fact that the development of fundamental physics, one of the greatest intellectual revolution in the history of mankind, remains largely unknown to the general public.
The author, Danielle Losman, is a former student of François Englert and a literary translator. When the suggestion came about to write his biography, it seemed natural to the professor and his former student to embark together in this adventure.
Sample Chapter(s)
Foreword
Contents:
Foreword
Notice
Notations
Abbreviations and Symbols
Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Physics Lesson
A Child in Wartime:
The Birth of a Project
Emigrants
The War
The Hidden Child
The Righteous
A Sense of Apparent Normalcy ...
A Not So Studious Adolescence
François and the Others:
Abhorrence of the Polytechnique ... et la maison du bon dieu
A Busy Year (1955)
Pierre Aigrain: Genuine Physics, at Last!
A Doctorate While in Uniform
A Stroll through the Land of Physics:
Physics ... A Late Blooming
The Atom and the Emergence of Quantum Physics
The Photon, a Little Fellow Well Deserving of a Couplet
Robert Brout, A Lifelong Friendship:
François at the Dawn of the Sixties
The United States
The Return to Belgium
The Genesis of the Brout–Englert–Higgs Mechanism:
1964 — A Visionary Paper
Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (QFT)
The Brout–Englert–Higgs (BEH) Mechanism
The Standard Model of Elementary Particles
No Doubt, It is Renormalizable!
On the Threshold of Cosmology:
When "the Infinitely Small" Merges with "the Infinitely Large"
The Boson Goes Its Way ... And François Goes His
Cosmology and Big Bang
Genesis According to Brout, Englert, Gunzig, and Spindel (BEGS)
A Fertile Haven within the ULB
Coming Together and Breaking Apart:
Ghosts of the Past ...
An International Network
Aharon Casher and Tel Aviv University
The Florida Crowd
Prolegomena to the Quantization of General Relativity
Israel and the Jerusalem Impromptu:
At Joseph Katz\'s
Mira
International Recognition:
A Cascade of Prizes
In the Aftermath of the Nobel Prize
A Laureate\'s Journeys
The Birthday Party
The Sixth of November 2012 was François\'s Eightieth Birthday
Epilogue: Glimpses of the Future
Original Texts of the Citations
Bibliography
Index
Readership: General public, academicians, scientists and physicists.
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