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Large Hadron Collider Teams Win $3M Breakthrough Prize

4/7/2025

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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has honored the Large Hadron Collider collaborations—ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb—with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. This accolade celebrates their groundbreaking work on the Higgs boson, accompanied by a generous $3 million prize to fund doctoral research at CERN, fueling the next generation of scientific discovery.

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The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has honored the Large Hadron Collider collaborations—ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb—with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. This accolade celebrates their groundbreaking work on the Higgs boson, accompanied by a generous $3 million prize to fund doctoral research at CERN, fueling the next generation of scientific discovery.