News: Indian researchers celebrate 2025 breakthrough prize in fundamental physics for award-winning CERN experiments. Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
About Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
- The Award was founded in 2012 by physicist Yuri Milner.
- Objective: To recognize those individuals who have made profound contributions to human knowledge.
- It is open to all physicists – theoretical, mathematical, experimental – working on the deepest mysteries of the Universe.
- Prize money: USD$3 million (more than twice the amount given to the Nobel Prize awardees)
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2025
- The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Run-2 data released between 2015 and July 15, 2024, at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.
- The $3 million prize is allocated to ATLAS ($1 million), CMS ($1 million), ALICE ($500,000) and LHCb ($500,000).
- The prize money will be used by the collaborations to offer grants for doctoral students from member institutes to spend research time at CERN.
- Indian scientists and researchers have played a significant role in the international collaboration for the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) and the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid)
