Edison Volta Prize

Director General of CERN, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, 2012 Edison Volta Prize laureate

Edison Volta Prize is awarded biannually by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics. The award consists of a diploma, a medal, and 10,000 euros in prize money. The award has been established in 2012 by the Centro di Cultura Scientifica "Alessandro Volta", Edison S.p.A and the European Physical Society.

2014 Laureate-

2014 EPS Edison Volta Prize was awarded in 2014 to:

• Jean-Michel Raimond, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Professor

"for seminal contribution to physics (that) have paved the way for novel explorations of quantum mechanics and have opened new routes in quantum information processing"

2012 Laureates

2012 EPS Edison Volta Prize was awarded 12 November 2012 to:

• Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN Director General,
• Sergio Bertolucci, CERN Director for Research and Computing,
• Stephen Myers, CERN Director for Accelerators and Technology,

"for having led, building on decades of dedicated work by their predecessors, the culminating efforts in the direction, research and operation of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which resulted in many significant advances in high energy particle physics, in particular, the first evidence of a Higgs-like boson in July 2012".