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U of Alberta Physicists Win $3M Prize, Fund Future Research

4/25/2025

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University of Alberta physicists Doug Gingrich, Roger Moore, and James Pinfold have been honored with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their groundbreaking work on the ATLAS detector at CERN. As part of a massive team of over 13,000 researchers, they will generously donate the $3 million prize to fund doctoral grants, furthering the pursuit of knowledge in particle physics.

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University of Alberta physicists Doug Gingrich, Roger Moore, and James Pinfold have been honored with the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their groundbreaking work on the ATLAS detector at CERN. As part of a massive team of over 13,000 researchers, they will generously donate the $3 million prize to fund doctoral grants, furthering the pursuit of knowledge in particle physics.