CERN receives the Prince of Asturias Award
Geneva, 25 October 2013. CERN , along with Peter Higgs and François Englert, will today receive the Prince of Asturias Award for "the theoretical prediction and experimental detection of the Higgs boson." CERN Director General Rolf Heuer will accept the prestigious prize on behalf of the Laboratory during a ceremony at Oviedo's Campoamor Theatre in Spain. "I'm greatly honoured to receive, on behalf of CERN, the 2013 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, shared with Peter Higgs and François Englert," said Heuer. "This prize recognises the importance of the discovery and is an award for all scientists - experimentalists and theorists - who made it possible." Spain's scientific and industrial communities are strong contributors to the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments, which together make up the unique fundamental research facility at which the Higgs boson was discovered. Today Spanish physicists are heavily involved in analysing the data collected by the LHC experiments, with many more advances in our understanding of the universe anticipated. The award ceremony will take place in the presence of Her Majesty the Queen of Spain and Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias. CERN management has decided that the prize to CERN will be used to offer ten grants for PhD students from around the world to attend next year's major particle physics conference, the International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP2014, in Valencia.
