Scientists from Northeastern University are among the thousands of collaborators awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for their research into the fundamental nature of matter at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.
Officials from the Breakthrough Prizes, known as “the Oscars of Science,” said the winning collaborations at CERN are being recognized for testing the modern theory of particle physics, including precisely measuring the properties of the Higgs boson.
Particle physics is the study of the smallest things in the universe, including quarks, leptons and bosons.
The Breakthrough Prize recognizes the complexity of the work involved in studying the particles at the massive Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland, says Northeastern physics professor Louise Skinnari.
“It is a fundamentally collaborative effort. The type of science we do is really trying to understand how nature and the universe work on the smallest scales at the subatomic scale,” says Skinnari.
She was named in the award along with Northeastern physics professors Toyoko Orimoto, Johan Bonilla Castro, Emanuela Barberisand Darien Wood. Also recognized were emeritus faculty George Alverson and numerous current and former post-doctoral researchers and Ph.D students from Northeastern.
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