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Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2026
Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics, according to the headline. Halzen is best known as the driving force behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, which detects neutrinos arriving from cosmic sources. Further details about the citation, co-laureates, or the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' reasoning were not available in the report.
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- Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 · Optics.org
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