The $3M 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to the researchers on the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) collaborations!
OSU Department of Physics affiliated Professors Antonio Boveia, Stanley Durkin, K.K. Gan, Chris Hill, Richard Hughes, Tom Humanic, Harris Kagan, Richard Kass, Ta-Yung Ling, Mike Lisa, Suyog Shrestha, and Brian Winer are among those named as laureates.
The Ohio State University is unique as an institution in having faculty involved in all four of these LHC collaborations.
The award ceremony took place April 12th, 2025.
We would also like to give a shoutout to the various researchers, grad students, and postdocs who have collaborated with faculty on these experiments and have also been named as Laureates.
- Juliette Alimena
- Louis Antonelli
- Aashwin Basnet
- James Baker Beacham
- Jessica Brinson
- Ben Bylsma
- Bryan Cardwell
- Michael Carrigan
- Siinn Che
- Benjamin Michael Cote
- Brian Francis
- Alex Gekow
- Bin Gui
- Natalie Harrison
- Andrew Hart
- Renat Ishmukhametov
- Weifeng Ji
- Roshan Joshi
- Matthew Joyce
- Kristina Anne Looper
- Anthony Lefeld
- Antoine Lesauvage
- Binghuan Li
- Wuming Luo
- Christopher Blake Martin
- Marco Montella
- Advait Nagarkar
- Martha Nunez Ornelas
- David Pignotti
- Zachary Pollock
- Bryan Reynolds
- Marissa Rodenburg
- Rachel Rosten
- Dale Shane Smith
- Analyce Soto-Hernandez
- Benjamin Tannenwald
- Bora Tar
- Emma Tolley
- Kai Wei
- Aaron Woyshville
- Howard Wells Wulsin
- Yi Yang
- Brent Yates
Thank you and congratulations to all the past and present graduate students, post-docs, technicians and engineers that had contributed to the fabrication of the detectors which allowed for these discoveries.
You can also read more about the work leading up to this prize, in this College of Arts and Sciences article, "Finding the Key to the Universe."
Congratulations to all of our department members involved in this research!