Francis Halzen

Francis Halzen is a Belgian physicist, among the main driving forces behind the IceCube neutrino observatory. On 6 October 2026 he received a phone call in Turin, where he was attending a meeting of the evaluation committee of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, with the news that he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube's decisive contribution. Halzen, a Belgian-American physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, held his first press conference as a Nobel laureate in the Rectorate Hall of the University of Turin; the official citation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honoured him «for his fundamental contribution to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin». [3]¹²

Timeline

• 4 October 2026 — Belgian physicist Francis Halzen receives a phone call in Turin, where he is staying for a meeting of the Infn evaluation committee, with the news that he has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the decisive contribution of the IceCube neutrino observatory. → TorinoToday ANSA Piemonte

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Sources

1. TorinoToday — 4 October 2026
2. ANSA Piemonte — 4 October 2026
3. Quotidiano Piemontese — 7 October 2026