Reacción a "Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Francis Halzen for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin and for his “decisive contributions” to the IceCube Observatory"

This is good news for astroparticle physics in general and for neutrino astronomy in particular. And of course, it’s well deserved by Francis Halzen, who was my advisor when I was working as a postdoc on a Marie Curie fellowship in the United States. 

Halzen played a decisive role in the construction of Amanda, the first detector of its kind built at the South Pole, and the predecessor to IceCube, which is the largest neutrino experiment currently in operation, also at the South Pole. He has also been instrumental in advancing the projects we’re working on in Europe—first Antares, which operated for several years in the Mediterranean Sea and demonstrated the feasibility of this type of project on the seafloor; and then KM3Net (Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope), which we are currently building in the Mediterranean Sea and which, even though it is still under construction, recently gained widespread fame for detecting the highest-energy superneutrino ever observed—a discovery that made the cover of *Nature*.  

This award recognizes Halzen’s work, which has paved the way for the work of many people whose research is now beginning to bear fruit and yield results in experiments that confirm what he predicted.