Belgian-American physicist Francis Halzen wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

It even published a comic illustrating his life: "How One Physicist’s Pursuit of the Cosmos Took Off in Antarctica"The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and receive a prize sum totalling 12 million Swedish crowns ($1.

Belgian-American particle physicist Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work creating an observatory to detect some of the universe's most elusive particles, high-energy neutrinos, and how they ​are created.

WINNERS FROM EINSTEIN TO BOHR AND THE CURIES Physics occupied a prominent place in Nobel's will, and the prize remains one of the discipline's highest distinctions.