Russian billionaire Yuri Milner’s Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation has awarded its top prizes for scientific discovery and $3 million each to British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) — the scientific collaboration that oversees the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator where a new particle that looks to be the Higgs boson was discovered in July, Yahoo News reported Tuesday.
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