Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over
Physicist Francis Halzen, the creator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, has finally been awarded a Nobel Prize. He expressed relief at the recognition, noting that the annual announcement period had previously been a source of personal and professional distress.
Why it matters
The recognition validates decades of research into neutrino physics, which provides critical insights into high-energy cosmic phenomena like black holes.
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Add to Preferred Sources Nobel physics prize winner Francis Halzen is the brains behind the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a telescope embedded in a cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice that detects neutrinos -- particles with almost no mass that seldom interact with other matter. Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades—but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserable," he admits.
"It's a great relief for me, because this was not totally unexpected," he told a press conference Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he serves as a professor. He spoke by video from a hotel room in Italy where he was attending a scientific meeting.
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