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Robert Brout. Our present understanding of the world in physical terms bears the mark of Robert Brout’s contribution to physics. Evoking his legacy, I revive intense memories of our lifelong friendship and of our collaborations. Born in New York City on 14 June 1928, Robert obtained his PhD in physics at Columbia University in 1953.

Theorists Robert Brout, François Englert and Peter Higgs proposed that particles aquire mass by interacting with a "Higgs field". In the 1970s, physicists realized that there are very close ties between two of the four fundamental forces – the weak force and the electromagnetic force.

Belgian physicist Learn about this topic in these articles: Englert In François Englert …a collaboration with Belgian physicist Robert Brout. Englert returned to ULB in 1961, becoming a professor there in 1964. With Brout he was codirector of the theoretical physics group at ULB from 1980 to 1998, when he became a professor emeritus.

Independently of one another, in 1964 both Peter Higgs and the team of François Englert and Robert Brout proposed a theory about the existence of a particle that explains why other particles have a mass. In 2012, two experiments conducted at the CERN laboratory confirmed the existence of the Higgs particle. To cite this section

Robert Brout ( / braʊt /; June 14, 1928 – May 3, 2011) was an American theoretical physicist who made significant contributions in elementary particle physics. He was a professor of physics at Université Libre de Bruxelles where he had created, together with François Englert, the Service de Physique Théorique.

In 1964, François Englert and his colleague Robert Brout published a paper 1 in Physical Review Letters in which they outlined a possible mechanism for the generation of particle masses.

The origins of the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism. Theorists Robert Brout, François Englert and Peter Higgs proposed that particles aquire mass by interacting with a "Higgs field". In the 1970s, physicists realized that there are very close ties between two of the four fundamental forces – the weak force and the electromagnetic force.