Explanation
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to a Belgian-born physicist Francis
Halzen.
He helped develop the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, which
uses Antarctic ice and light sensors to detect tiny particles called neutrinos
arriving from distant cosmic sources.
About Nobel Prize in Physics
2025
Co-winners: John Clarke,
Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis
Awarded for the discovery
of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an
electric circuit
The trio belongs to the USA.
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