The 2026 Nobel Prize for Physics has gone to Francis Halzen for his “decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin”.
In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast I am joined by the University of Oxford neutrino physicist Kirsty Duffy and Physics World’s Matin Durrani to talk about this year’s prize. This is the fifth time a Nobel prize has been awarded for work on neutrinos, and we explore why physicists are so enamoured with these elusive particles.
- In this podcast we refer to my video conversation with Francis Halzen and his colleague James Roth and to Halzen’s book Quarks & Leptons. Kirsty Duffy presents the Even Bananas series of videos about neutrinos.
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