#NobelPrize

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Science Channel@thesciencechannel

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen, the "Neutrino Man".

He first proposed IceCube in 1988: a detector made from a cubic kilometre of ice deep beneath the South Pole. The prize honours his decisive contributions to it and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from deep space.

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Source: Al Jazeera

Illustration of the South Pole station at twilight, with a cutaway of the ice below showing strings of glowing sensors and a streak of light passing through them.