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Francis Halzen to Receive 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for Cosmic Neutrino Detection
His 1988 sketch of how to use Antarctic ice to detect neutrinos led to the IceCube observatory, which made the first detections of high-energy neutrinos in 2013.
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