Q. Consider the following statements about the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics:
1.It carries more prize money than that of Nobel Prize in physics.
2.It was started by a physicist just after the end of World War 2.
3.The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is awarded to co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
How many of the above statements are correct?
Answer: B
Notes:
Explanation: Statements 1 and 3 are correct
Statement 1 is correct: Prize money: USD$3 million (more than twice the amount given to the Nobel Prize awardees).
Statement 2 is incorrect: Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was founded in 2012 by Yuri Milner.
Statement 3 is correct: 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.
Source: PIB
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