Dr. Yalçın Güler and Dr. Emine Gürpınar Güler, faculty members of the Department of Engineering Basic Sciences within our University’s Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, were deemed worthy of the Breakthrough Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific awards.
Also referred to as the “Oscars of Science,” the Breakthrough Prizes are known as one of the world’s most prestigious awards, presented each year in the fields of Fundamental Physics, Life Sciences, and Mathematics in order to honor groundbreaking discoveries and outstanding scientific contributions in the world of science. This important award, given for the groundbreaking scientific studies carried out on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the field of fundamental physics, created a great impact in the international scientific community, and the fact that our university’s academics also had a share in this success became a source of pride.
Actively taking part in the CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) Experiment, one of the four major experiments conducted on the LHC, Dr. Emine Gürpınar Güler and Dr. Yalçın Güler, faculty members of our Department of Engineering Basic Sciences, were deemed worthy of the 2025 Breakthrough Prize within the framework of this international experimental collaboration.
The Breakthrough Prize honors scientific outputs that make significant contributions to confirming the mechanism of symmetry breaking, which plays a role in the formation of mass, through the detailed measurement of the properties of the Higgs boson; the discovery of new and strongly interacting particles; the study of rare physical processes; research aimed at understanding matter–antimatter asymmetry; and the investigation of nature at the shortest distances and under the most extreme conditions.
The fact that our university’s academics, as part of this distinguished research team, were deemed worthy of one of the world’s most respected scientific awards demonstrates our university’s effectiveness in international scientific collaborations, its research capacity in the field of basic sciences, and its strength in qualified academic production.
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