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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting ‘ghostly’ cosmic particlesThe 2026 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a pioneering Belgian astrophysicist whose work developing a massive observatory in Antarctica to detect “ghostly” cosmic particles laid the foundations for an “entirely new type of astronomy.”
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