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Eight scientists from Odisha-based institutions have been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics-2025, among 13,508 global researchers recognised by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) for groundbreaking contributions to particle physics.
The USD 3 million prize, higher than the Nobel Prize's monetary award, honours work conducted during CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Run-2, which concluded in July 2024.
Scientists from Bhubaneswar's National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), IIT, Institute of Physics, and Berhampur's IISER contributed to experiments like ALICE and CMS, a...