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Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube contributions
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 physics prize to University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Francis Halzen, and the Nobel Prize account announced the citation tied to IceCube and high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
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Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences selected him for “decisive contributions” to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. Supplied sources describe IceCube as a detector made from deep South Pole ice that opened what researchers and Nobel officials called a new way to do astronomy.
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