{"id":227445,"date":"2025-12-19T01:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/private-donors-pledge-1-billion-for-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:38:24","slug":"private-donors-pledge-1-billion-for-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/private-donors-pledge-1-billion-for-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator","title":{"rendered":"Private donors pledge $1 billion for world\u2019s largest particle accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/private-donors-pledge-1-billion-for-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world\u2019s biggest.<\/p>\n<p>In a first, private individuals and philanthropic foundations have backed a flagship research project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which seeks to unravel what the universe is made of and how it works.<\/p>\n<p>The donors include the Breakthrough Prize Foundation of billionaire Silicon Valley investor Yuri Milner; the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fund for Strategic Innovation of former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt; plus Italian Agnelli family heir John Elkann, and French telecoms tycoon Xavier Niel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s physics lab CERN on Thursday said private donors had pledged $1 billion toward the construction of a new particle accelerator that would be by far the world\u2019s biggest. In a first, private individuals and philanthropic foundations have backed a flagship research project at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which seeks to unravel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}