UP physicist among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - BusinessWorld Online

UP physicist among winners of prestigious Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics - BusinessWorld Online

Dr. Marvin Flores, assistant professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman-College of Science National Institute of Physics (UPD-CS NIP), has been recognized as part of the international ATLAS collaboration, one of the recipients of the prestigious 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The award was given to the ATLAS group at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, alongside its sister experiments — ALICE, CMS, and LHCb — in honor of t…

Scientists from Royal Holloway University in Egham are among those who won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.

It was awarded to the ATLAS Collaboration, co-founded by Royal Holloway’s Department of Physics, at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. The prize recognised significant contributions to particle physics, including work on the Higgs boson and rare particle processes. Royal Holloway’s ATLAS team will now prepare for its next chapter, leading development of software for the High-Luminosity LHC.