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 an award we have been hoping for for years. It recognizes Francis’s leadership in the construction of IceCube, the massive detector buried beneath the Antarctic ice, which has detected signals from galactic and extragalactic neutrinos, opening up a new field of science: neutrino astronomy.  

It is well-deserved and necessary in that it recognizes the importance of basic science.