Francis Halzen
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Francis Louis Halzen is a Belgian-American particle physicist and Nobel laureate. He is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director of its Institute for Elementary Particle Physics. Halzen is the Principal Investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, the world's largest neutrino detector which has been operational since 2010.
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The Belgian physicist won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the IceCube neutrino observatory at the South Pole.
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