Nobel physics prize awarded for discovery of ‘ghostly messengers’ from the cosmos

With a colleague, Halzen came up with the vision for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. Christopher Michel, CC BY-SA The 2026 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his discovery of high energy neutrino particles from space. The Nobel committee said Halzen has made “decisive contributions” to the discovery of “neutrinos of astrophysical...