Halzen wins Nobel Prize in Physics for detecting cosmic particles
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Belgian-born American citizen Francis Halzen has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Nobel Committee announced Halzen as the winner on Tuesday.
The committee said Halzen received the award for his important contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources.
Halzen is the principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.
He serves as a Vilas Research Professor and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is also director of the university’s Institute for Elementary Particle Physics Research.
Halzen is known as a pioneer in high-energy neutrino astronomy. His research in the field has played an important role in investigating high-energy particles in the universe and their sources.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to three scientists: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. They received the prize “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit.”
The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The prize carries a total monetary award of 12 million Swedish kronor, equivalent to approximately Tk 1.471 billion. If the prize is awarded to more than one person, the money is divided among the recipients. (nobelprize.org)
