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'Ghost particle' hunter Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
STOCKHOLM: Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for ground-breaking work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe’s most elusive particles, high-energy neutrinos, and how they are created. Halzen realised that ice at the South Pole could be used to track neutrinos, sometimes known as ‘ghost particles’ for the way they pass through the Earth and our bodies without a trace, and only interact with matter extremely rarely. “The messengers bring information from the cosmos,” Eva Olsson, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told ...
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