Fundamental Physics Prize Foundation announces Physics Frontiers and New Horizons in Physics prizes along with two special prizes

Two $3,000,000 special Fundamental Physics Prizes have been awarded to Stephen Hawking and to seven scientists who led the effort to discover a Higgs-like particle at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider.

The winner of the 2013 Fundamental Physics Prize will be announced at a ceremony at CERN on March 20, 2013.

More information can be found in the CERN press release.