[henrikschroder]

I was just listening to the news, and apparently over 3000 people were more or less involved with the work at CERN. I don't think the physics prize has ever been awarded to an institution like the peace prize has been in the past, and I think the Academy simply chose not to break tradition.

[_pferreir_]

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

[davrosthedalek]

That's not a significantly lower number of people.

[davrosthedalek]

And I would like to add that the people building the accelerator play a significant role too.

[aestra]

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