Francis Halzen
Appearance
Francis Louis Halzen (born 23 March 1944 in Tienen, Belgium) is a Belgian-American particle physicist, known for the development of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica which has been operational since 2010.
Life
Halzen graduated from Université catholique de Louvain with a MSc Physics degree in 1966, then a PhD in 1969. Between 1969-1971 he worked as a scientific associate at CERN. Since 1972 he has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the principal investigator on the AMANDA and IceCube projects.
Awards
- 1994: Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2013: Breakthrough of the Year Award by the journal Physics World for the first-time discovery of cosmic neutrios beyond the Milky Way [1]
- 2015: Balzan Prize [2]
- 2015: European Physical Society Prize for Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology [3]
References
- ^ Hamish Johnston (December 13, 2013). "Cosmic neutrinos named Physics World 2013 Breakthrough of the Year". Physics World. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ^ "2015 Balzan Prize for Astroparticle Physics including neutrino and gamma-ray observation". International Balzan Prize Foundation. October 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
- ^ "The 2015 EPS HEPP Prizes are announced". European Physical Society. April 14, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2018.
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