Hawking, CERN scientists win huge physics prize

Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 07:00 in Astronomy & Space

A Russian billionaire's foundation is awarding two special prizes of $3 million each to British cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes and to seven scientists at the world's biggest atom-smasher for their roles in the discovery of a new subatomic particle believed to be the long-sought Higgs boson.

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