IceCube Founder Awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

IceCube Founder Awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Superadmin Fri, 10/09/2026 - 10:06 For Georgia Tech physicists, this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes decades of work that helped establish neutrino astronomy as a new way to study the universe. Francis Halzen , principal investigator of the NSF IceCube Neutrino Observatory and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his “ decisive contributions to IceCube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin .” “Francis proposed building a neutrino tele