Science The Guardian — Science · 2026-10-06T11:25:25Z · 1 min read

Nobel prize in physics goes to Francis Halzen for south pole work on neutrinos

Belgian physicist praised for work on the IceCube detector that observes the ghost-like particles in Antarctica The Nobel prize in physics 2026 has been awarded to a researcher who turned an enormous block of ice at the south pole into a detector for ghostly particles called neutrinos that reach Earth from outer space. Prof Francis Halzen, a Belgian particle physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led work…

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