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Trillions of ‘ghost particles’ pass through your body every second. The scientist who hunts them just won the Nobel Prize
Francis Halzen turned Antarctic ice into a giant detector for elusive neutrinos, with sensors buried 8,200 feet below the surface.
Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. “It was a great surprise, and I obviously didn’t expect it,” Halzen said, speaking to the Nobel Physics Committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce…
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