Francis Halzen is a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (wipac.wisc.edu) By AURELIEN BREEDEN Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his work on a project at the South Pole that has helped discover high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Who is the winner? Halzen is a physics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was born in 1944 in Tienen, Belgium. Why did the committee say he…
