South Pole neutrino hunter wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Francis Halzen in 2018. Image: Reuters Belgian-American scientist Francis Halzen has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating an observatory in Antarctic ice that detects 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…