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University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor Francis Halzen named 2026 Nobel laureate in physics
Campus History

Meet UW–Madison’s Nobel Prize winners

Francis Halzen, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics, joins a community of Badgers who’ve changed the world.

Computing and AI

Behind IceCube discoveries, decades of high-throughput computing

UW–Madison and Morgridge Institute researchers have supported Halzen’s work long before IceCube existed — an exemplar of computing collaborations that have now contributed to four Nobel Prize-winning efforts.

Nobel Prize

‘There is no other scientist quite like Francis Halzen’

Leaders across the state, country and world pay tribute to the UW–Madison professor and winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics.

Recent Sightings

Francis Halzen cuts into a cake with a Nobel Prize medallian design, with colleagues watching in the background.

A work party for a Nobel Prize After returning to campus, Francis Halzen celebrated the Nobel Prize achievement with his UW–Madison colleagues. See more

Photo by: Althea Dotzour

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