Nobel Prize in physics
The 2026 award goes to a pioneering astrophysicist behind a huge Antarctic facility that detects "ghostly" particles from distant galaxies
Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting cosmic particles
The 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a pioneering Belgian astrophysicist whose work developing a massive observatory in Antarctica to detect “ghostly” cosmic particles laid the foundations for an “entirely new type of astronomy.”
