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2025 Breakthrough Prize Honors CERN Teams, Funds Future Research

4/6/2025

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CERN Teams Celebrate

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics celebrated the remarkable achievements of four CERN collaborations: ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE, and CMS. Honored for their groundbreaking research on Higgs boson properties, these teams generously allocated part of their prize money to fund doctoral research at CERN, nurturing the next generation of scientific innovation.

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Drucker Honored for Research

Dr. Daniel Drucker and his team from the University of Toronto have been honored with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their groundbreaking research on GLP-1, paving the way for innovative diabetes and obesity treatments like Ozempic. Additionally, Canadian Maaike van Kooten has earned the New Horizons Prize for her remarkable advancements in optical systems for astronomy.

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CERN Teams Celebrate

The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics celebrated the remarkable achievements of four CERN collaborations: ATLAS, LHCb, ALICE, and CMS. Honored for their groundbreaking research on Higgs boson properties, these teams generously allocated part of their prize money to fund doctoral research at CERN, nurturing the next generation of scientific innovation.

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