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Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner Francis Halzen for his work on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory 

The Physics Department of the University of Alberta congratulates the 2026 Nobel Prize winner, Francis Halzen. He is known for his visionary pursuit of neutrino telescopes, which is especially remarkable since he started as a renowned theorist before becoming the mastermind behind the construction of the world’s largest neutrino detector at the South Pole.

The Department of Physics at the University of Alberta has a long tradition of contributing to the IceCube experiment. Members of the Alberta IceCube team were on the organizing committee of the 2015 Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) congress, which brought Prof. Halzen to Edmonton to give a plenary presentation titled “IceCube and the Discovery of High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos”.

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