LIVE: Francis Halzen on winning Nobel Prize in Physics

By Reuters

Community Score: 50% | 150 views | 1w

0 community ratings: null thumbs up, null thumbs down

Belgian-American Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, speaks at a briefing held by the University of Wisconsin-Madison.    Halzen, 82, won for his work creating an Antarctic observatory of ice to detect high-energy neutrinos, elusive subatomic particles that can reveal otherwise inaccessible information about the cosmos.   He realized that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos, sometimes known as "ghost particles" for ‌the way they pass through the Earth without a trace, only interacting with matter extremely rarely. Full story: https://reut.rs/4rNHnki   #francishalzen #nobelprize #physics #science #UWMadison Keep up with the latest news from around the world: https://www.reuters.com/