GoKawiilFrancis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize for IceCube neutrino observatory
Francis Halzen has been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for leading development of IceCube, the cubic-kilometre neutrino detector at the South Pole. The observatory achieved a landmark result in 2017 by tracing a high-energy neutrino back to a blazar, marking the first confirmed source identification of its kind and advancing 'multi-messenger' astronomy, which combines neutrinos, cosmic rays, light and gravitational waves to study cosmic events.