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- 1Nobel Physics Prize Draws Personal Reflections From Neutrino Researchers●Today’s Nobel Prize in Physics feels deeply personal. As a Ph.D. student, I travelled twice to the South Pole to work on
The announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics has prompted scientists with ties to neutrino telescope research to share personal stories online. A physicist recalled travelling twice to the South Pole as a PhD student to calibrate the AMANDA-II detector, a precursor to IceCube, and described working alongside Francis Halzen, whose neutrino astronomy work underpins the field. Researchers say the award recognises decades of effort building detectors at the South Pole.