Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles, high-energy neutrinos, and how they ​are created. Halzen realised that ice at the South Pole could be used to track neutrinos, sometimes known as ‘ghost particles’ ‌for the […]