BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
More to follow.
Halzen first presented the South Pole idea in 1988. IceCube was finished in 2011, and today he's the only laureate, for a detector run by a collaboration of 40+ institutions.
