The 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded co-authors of publications based on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Run-2 data released between 2015 and July 15, 2024, at the experimental collaborations ATLAS, CMS, ALICE and LHCb. The JHU team on the CMS experiment played a crucial role in the discovery and subsequent measurements of the Higgs boson; Andrei Gritsan, Petar Makisomovic and Morris Swartz are among the co-authors who are recipients of the Prize.