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.” (...) 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. The prize to CERN will also be used to launch a competition for school students in Spain. Pupils aged 6-18 will be challenged to submit a drawing, photo, video or a news article. Their entries will be evaluated through a public vote and by an expert committee involving scientists from CERN and CPAN, the Spanish Centre for Particle Physics, which will contribute to the competition with related outreach activities and awards. Six winners will be rewarded with a two-day visit to CERN. Full details of the competition will be available from 1 December on the CERNland children’s website. (...) The Prince of Asturias Award ceremony will be made available to broadcasters around the world via Eurovision: eurovision.net/wf/worldfeeds.php The transmission will start at 4.30pm.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 08:49:21 +0000
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