‘Neutrino Man’ Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel ⁠Prize in Physics 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. Halzen, 82, realised that pristine ice at the South Pole could be used to track such neutrinos, sometimes known as “ghost partic