Short | Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Belgian scientist

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Belgian scientist

October 6, 2026 - Physicist Francis Halzen has received the Nobel Prize for his neutrino detector in the ice of the South Pole. The detector made it possible to observe particles originating from the depths of the universe.

Halzen (1944) was born in Flanders and studied in Leuven, but has worked in the United States for decades. The last Dutch laureate received the prize in 2010. That was Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim, who grew up in Russia. / HOP, LvA

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