Physicist hunting 'ghost particles' under South Pole ice since the 1980s wins Nobel prize

VNExpress - Oct 6, 2026

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said.

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