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Una Hajdari

Belgian physicist wins Nobel for turning Antarctic ice into a telescope

Buried deep in the ice at the South Pole sits a detector the size of a cubic kilometre, built to catch some of the most elusive particles in the universe. On Tuesday, the man who dreamt it up won the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering work that uses Antarctic ice to capture neutrinos from the far reaches of the cosmos.

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