Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize for high-energy neutrino research

Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize for high-energy neutrino research

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Francis Halzen, an 82-year-old physicist from Belgium affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The award recognizes his pioneering work on detecting high-energy neutrinos from space, a project that began in the 1980s at the South Pole.

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