The 'atom smasher' of Auckland University

The 'atom smasher' of Auckland University

When Professor David Krofcheck got an email congratulating him on winning the Oscar of the science world, he dismissed it as a hoax.“I thought it was a scam, I thought it was a phishing email,” recalls Krofcheck, nuclear physicist at Auckland University.“Yeah right, I’ve won the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.”Then he started to believe that it was “bizarre enough to be real”.The prize for Krofcheck and his 13,507 colleagues who …