{"id":646402,"date":"2026-10-06T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646402\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T11:12:08","slug":"francis-halzen-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-icecube-neutrino-observatory-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/646402\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for IceCube Neutrino Observatory research"},"content":{"rendered":"

STOCKHOLM, Sweden \u2014 Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and his discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis Halzen has led an international team of researchers and engineers who have provided us with a fantastic instrument. His tenacity and scientific vision has paved the way for a new kind of astronomy,\u201d Mark Pearce, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said in a news release.<\/p>\n

Born in Belgium, the 82-year-old scientist is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison in the U.S. Efforts by The Associated Press to reach Halzen were not immediately successful.<\/p>\n

Halzen\u2019s research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.<\/p>\n

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the award in Stockholm.<\/p>\n

The prize money this year is 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million), whether for an individual, a small group of laureates or an organization.<\/p>\n

Last year, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics<\/a> for research on the strange behavior of subatomic particles called quantum tunneling that enabled the ultra-sensitive measurements achieved by MRI machines and laid the groundwork for better cellphones and faster computers.<\/p>\n

The announcements of this year\u2019s prizes began Monday with the Nobel Prize in medicine being awarded<\/a> to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works.<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s awards continue Wednesday with the chemistry prize and literature on Thursday. After Friday\u2019s peace prize is awarded, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences will be announced on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STOCKHOLM, Sweden \u2014 Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his contributions to the IceCube…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[61,60,248,82],"class_list":["post-646402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-physics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}