{"id":245004,"date":"2026-10-06T22:14:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/francis-halzen-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-work-on-mysterious-ghost-particles-called-neutrinos"},"modified":"2026-10-06T22:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:14:49","slug":"francis-halzen-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-work-on-mysterious-ghost-particles-called-neutrinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/francis-halzen-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-work-on-mysterious-ghost-particles-called-neutrinos","title":{"rendered":"Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HTi0PU_yPvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a great surprise and I obviously didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d Halzen said, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, in a call broadcast at the news conference to announce the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Halzen said it was predicted before that he would win the Nobel Prize but the announcement still made him feel \u201cstrange.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that scientists believe offer clues to how the universe evolved. \u201cIt was a great surprise and I obviously didn\u2019t expect it,\u201d Halzen said, speaking to the committee by phone from Italy, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}