India Celebrates Breakthrough Prize for LHC Experiments

Key Points

• 1The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics recognizes the ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, and LHCb experiments at CERN.
• 2The $3 million prize will fund grants for doctoral students to work at CERN.
• 3Indian scientists significantly contributed to the ALICE and CMS experiments.
• 4India became an Associate Member State of CERN in 2017.
• 5In June 2004, India gifted a 2m tall statue of the Indian deity Shiva Nataraja to CERN.