Nobel Winner Francis Halzen: Physics Is a Miserable Career

The man who won the Nobel Prize for IceCube tells young scientists the truth: by every objective measure, physics is a miserable career. The only reason to do it is obsession. Francis Halzen on the insecurity he carried for decades, why imagination can beat intelligence, and the Nobel logbook that made Barry Barish feel like an impostor next to Einstein.

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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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