Francis Halzen

Francis Louis Halzen is a Belgian-American particle physicist and Nobel laureate. As of October 2026 he is the Vilas Research Professor and Gregory Breit Professor at the University of... Wikipedia

• Born:  Francis Louis Halzen, March 23, 1944, Tienen, Belgium
• Age:  82 years
• Fields:  Particle physics, Neutrino physics
• Institutions:  CERN, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Education:  Catholic University of Leuven (MSc, PhD)
• Thesis:  Gebroken symmetrieën van hadronen - dynamica van het PII Pl-nucleon kanaal (1968)
• Known for:  IceCube Neutrino Observatory
• Notable awards:  American Physical Society Fellow (1994), Nobel Prize in Physics (2026)
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