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Rajaâ Cherkaoui El Moursli, who leads a research team in Morocco for the ATLAS collaboration, is among this year's laureates
The Universe of Particles exhibition in CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation has won a certificate of excellence from the travel website TripAdvisor
The first recipients of the ATLAS PhD Grant – a fund set up with award money from the Fundamental Physics Prize – begin their scholarships this year
At a ceremony today in Copenhagen, Denmark, CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer accepted the Niels Bohr Gold Medal on behalf of CERN
The Fundamental Physics Foundation recognized Russian theorist Slava Rychkov for breathing new life into conformal field theory
CERN, along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, today receives the Prince of Asturias Award during a ceremony in Spain
Today in Stockholm, Sweden, the European Physical Society High Energy Physics Division announced the winners of its 2013 prizes
This week the IEEE recognized Robert Aymar and Herman ten Kate for their contributions to the field of applied superconductivity
CERN today received the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shared with theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert
CERN has today received the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research shared with theorists Peter Higgs and François Englert
In a ceremony on 24 March, the 2013 Edinburgh Medal was awarded to Peter Higgs and CERN
