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Francis Halzen | |
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| Born | March 23, 1944 |
| Education | University of Louvain |
| Known for | IceCube Neutrino Observatory |
| Title | Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor |
| Awards | Yodh Prize (2019) Bruno Pontecorvo Prize (2018)[1] Academia Europaea Member (2018) Balzan Price for Astroparticle Physics (2015) European Physical Society Prize for Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology (2015) Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award (2014) Physics World Breakthrough of the Year Award (2013) American Physical Society Fellow (1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Particle physics, Neutrino physics |
| Institutions | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| Doctoral students | Dan Hooper |
| Website | https://icecube.wisc.edu/~halzen/ |
Francis Louis Halzen (born 23 March 1944 in Tienen, Belgium) is a Belgian particle physicist. 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.