UC Irvine scientists among winners of Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
May 12, 2025 •
Researchers in UC Irvine’s Department of Physics and Astronomy were among thousands of scientists from 70 countries to share in the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics that was announced by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation in early April.
The $3 million award honors experimental contributions at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, that enabled the study of Higgs boson properties and other key findings in particle physics between 2015 and 2024.
“UC Irvine physics and astronomy researchers can be proud of their contributions to the Breakthrough Prize-winning research at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider,” said Daniel Whiteson, UC Irvine professor of physics and astronomy and chair of the department’s communications committee. “Our work has led directly to the important discoveries at the LHC, and it has laid the groundwork for new and more effective research methods in all parts of physics research.”
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