I was just listening to the news, and apparently over 3000 people were more or less involved with the work at CERN. I don't think the physics prize has ever been awarded to an institution like the peace prize has been in the past, and I think the Academy simply chose not to break tradition.
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I was just listening to the news, and apparently over 3000 people were more or less involved with the work at CERN. I don't think the physics prize has ever been awarded to an institution like the peace prize has been in the past, and I think the Academy simply chose not to break tradition.
They could have awarded it to the CMS and ATLAS experiments as well. No need to award it to CERN.
That's not a significantly lower number of people.
And I would like to add that the people building the accelerator play a significant role too.
They can't award it to CERN or CMS or ATLAS. At most 3 individual people can split one prize.