Physicist hunting ‘ghost particles’ under South Pole ice since the 1980s wins Nobel prize
“This year’s prize is about ghostly messengers from space,” Ellen Moons, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a news conference. Halzen was honored “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”, the jury said. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences noted that … Read more