Penn physicists share Breakthrough Prize with international team of researchers
Penn physicists were among more than 13,000 researchers from 70 countries who shared the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Penn particle physicists (from left) Joseph Kroll, Brig Williams, and Elliot Lipeles, pictured in 2011. They are part of the ATLAS research team that helped discover the Higgs boson, an elementary particle, and were honored with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize for their ongoing Higgs research. Read moreMICHAEL S. WIRTZ / Staff Photographer
