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The Measurement of Muon g-2 wins Breakthrough Prize

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Muon g-2

Dave Hertzog, director of CENPA at the the UW and co-spokesperson for the Muon g-2 experiment, accepted the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics on behalf of the g-2 collaborations.

More information on this achievement can be found at the links below:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01014-9

https://breakthroughprize.org/News/98

https://home.cern/news/press-release/cern/muon-g-2-experiment-pioneers-win-breakthrough-prize-fundamental-physics

Image Credit: At the Breakthrough Prize ceremony on April 18, 2026, left to right: Brookhaven National Laboratory Interim Director John Hill, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) physicist Chris Polly, Boston University physicist Lee Roberts, Fermilab Director Emeritus Young-Kee Kim, CERN Director General Mark Thomson, University of Washington physicist David Hertzog, and Brookhaven Lab physicist William Morse. (Courtesy of Kat Morse)