India, April 23 -- Scientists from four Odisha-based institutions have been awarded with the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, 2025.

As many as 13,508 researchers from at least 70 countries across the Globe have been felicitated with the Breakthrough Prize (US $ 3 million) in Fundamental Physics for the year 2025.

These scientists have been associated with four experimental collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC)-ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb.

Four scientists--Bedangadas Mohanty, Ranbir Singh, Sanjay Swain, Prolay Mal--from NISER, Bhubaneswar; scientist Seema Bahinipati from IIT, Bhubaneswar; two scientists--Aruna Kumar Nayak, Pradip Kumar Sahu--from Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, and Natasha Sharma from IISER, ...