Imperial physicists share in new $3 million prize for fundamental physics work to discover Higgs boson
Three Imperial physicists will receive a share of a new $3 million prize, awarded for their part in identifying a Higgs-like boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator at CERN. The Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation will honour a total of seven scientists for their leadership role in the scientific endeavour that led to the discovery the new Higgs-like boson, namely the LHC accelerator, and the CMS and ATLAS experiments. A separate $3 million prize is awarded to theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. New laureates of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize include experimental physicists Tejinder (Jim) Virdee FRS , Visiting Lyn Evans FRS and Senior Research Investigator Michel Della Negra, who all hold positions in Imperial's Department of Physics. The prizes will be given at a ceremony at CERN on 20 March 2013. Della Negra and Virdee are considered founding fathers of the CMS, carrying out the first preliminary studies to detect a Higgs boson in 1990. Together they also played significant roles in the conception and construction of the experiment over the subsequent 20 years.
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