The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics honours Francis Halzen and IceCube for turning elusive particles from deep space into a new language of astronomy. The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen, a Belgian-American physicist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The award recognizes decades of research that have opened