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0 points_pferreir_12y ago0 comments

They could have awarded it to the CMS and ATLAS experiments as well. No need to award it to CERN.

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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.

aestra12y ago

They can't award it to CERN or CMS or ATLAS. At most 3 individual people can split one prize.

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0 points_pferreir_12y ago0 comments

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.

aestra12y ago

They can't award it to CERN or CMS or ATLAS. At most 3 individual people can split one prize.

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