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Nobel Prize in Physics honors the scientist who turned Antarctic ice into a telescope

Oct 8, 2026

Nobel Prize in Physics honors the scientist who turned Antarctic ice into a telescope

Francis Halzen led IceCube, a detector built into a cubic kilometer of ice that catches ghostly particles from deep space.