Nobel Prize Winner Francis Halzen: I Thought IceCube Would FAIL!

People told Francis Halzen that a neutrino telescope frozen into the South Pole ice was a cute idea that would never work. He agreed with them. He went deep into debt to the NSF and the University of Wisconsin before IceCube saw a single neutrino, and he explains why the best moment was not the cosmic discovery but the first boring atmospheric one.

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Francis Halzen is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole.

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