AIP congratulates Francis Halzen, the 2026 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1988, Halzen proposed what ultimately became the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a detector for capturing ghostlike messengers buried 2 kilometers beneath Antarctic ice, opening the world to neutrino astronomy. He has been its principal investigator since 2001. CEO Michael Moloney said, "This prize highlights one of the great recurring stories of physics: When we find a fundamentally new way to observe nature, we often discover entirely new questions that we didn't previously know how to ask."AIP Congratulates 2026 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
October 07, 2026
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AIP congratulates Francis Halzen, the 2026 winner of the Nobel Prize in physics. In 1988, Halzen proposed what ultimately became the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a detector for capturing ghostlike messengers buried 2 kilometers beneath Antarctic ice, opening the world to neutrino astronomy. He has been its principal investigator since 2001. CEO Michael Moloney said, "This prize highlights one of the great recurring stories of physics: When we find a fundamentally new way to observe nature, we often discover entirely new questions that we didn't previously know how to ask."
