‘Neutrino Man’ Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles – high-energy neutrinos – and trying to establish how they are made. Halzen, 82, realised that ice at the South Pole could be used to track neutrinos, sometimes known as “ghost particles” for the way they pass through the Earth and our bodies without a trace, and only interact with matter extremely rarely. “The...