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UW-Madison physicist Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize
Original: See more about UW-Madison physicist Francis Halzen's Nobel Prize
Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been awarded a Nobel Prize, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Halzen is known for leading the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects neutrinos arriving from deep space. The recognition is being noted as a major milestone for the university and for particle astrophysics.
Why now: News of a Nobel Prize for a prominent UW-Madison scientist is drawing attention locally and in the physics community.
Francis HalzenUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonIceCube Neutrino Observatory
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- See more about UW-Madison physicist Francis Halzen's Nobel Prize · Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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