The $3 million Breakthrough Prize for fundamental physics is being awarded to hundreds of researchers who worked on the Muon g-2 Collaboration. The money will be distributed among all authors of research papers related to the project. The prize is the world's richest scientific award, surpassing the roughly $1.2 million prize given to Nobel laureates. The project involved 400 researchers involved in the experiments at Fermilab in Illinois and at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York. Russian-born tech investor Yuri Milner established the prize in 2012 to recognize achievements in fundamental physics, mathematics, and the life sciences. Past winners include physicists Eric Adelberger, Lukasz Fidkowski, Jens Gundlach and Blayne Heckel.