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Englert, François

(Encyclopedia)Englert, François, 1932–, Belgian theoretical physicist, Ph.D. Université libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Brussels, 1959. He has been a professor at U.L.B. since 1964. Englert was the recipient, join...

Standard Model

(Encyclopedia)Standard Model, in physics: see elementary particles. ...

Higgs boson, Higgs field, and Higgs particle

(Encyclopedia)Higgs boson, Higgs field, and Higgs particle: see elementary particles. ...

Higgs, Peter Ware

(Encyclopedia)Higgs, Peter Ware, 1929–, British theoretical physicist, Ph.D. Kings College London, 1954. Higgs joined the faculty at the Univ. of Edinburgh in 1960. He was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics ...

quark

(Encyclopedia)quark kwôrk [key]: see elementary particles. ...

boson

(Encyclopedia)boson: see elementary particles; Bose-Einstein statistics. ...

gluon

(Encyclopedia)gluon, an elementary particle that mediates, or carries, the strong, or nuclear, force. In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the quantum field theory of strong interactions, the interaction of quarks (to ...

weak interactions

(Encyclopedia)weak interactions, actions between elementary particles mediated, or carried, by W and Z particles and that are responsible for nuclear decay. Weak interactions are one of four fundamental interaction...

Kendall, Henry Way

(Encyclopedia)Kendall, Henry Way, 1926–99, American physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kendall won the 1990 Nobel Prize in Physics with Jerome Friedman and Richard Taylor for a s...

hyperon

(Encyclopedia)hyperon hīˈpərŏnˌ [key], class of elementary particles heavier than nucleons (proton and neutron). The nucleons and the hyperons together make up the baryon family of particles. ...