<![CDATA[Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for the Advent of Neutrino Astronomy]]>

693772 external_news 1793813636 1793889794 <![CDATA[Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded for the Advent of Neutrino Astronomy]]> Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering a telescope, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, that paved the way for a new kind of astronomy. Scientists used this telescope, embedded deep in the ice at the South Pole, to detect ghostly particles known as neutrinos whizzing in at high energies from the far reaches of the universe.

Ignacio Taboada, a physicist at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a former IceCube spokesperson, said that he and his colleagues had expected Dr. Halzen to win a Nobel Prize for some time.

“He has been relentless in the pursuit and promotion of the field of neutrino astronomy for decades,” Dr. Taboada said.

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