Hawking and CERN Teams Win Prizes From Russian Billionaire
12/11/2012 - The New York Times (requires free registration)
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur who startled the scientific world last summer when he handed out $3 million apiece to nine theoretical physicists and mathematicians, set to announce another round of multimillion-dollar prizes to physicists. Headlining the list are a pair of “special” prizes of $3 million each, one to the British cosmologist Stephen Hawking for his work on black holes, and the other to be shared by seven scientists here at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, for the discovery in July of what is probably the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle that endows others with mass.