{"id":245039,"date":"2026-10-07T21:43:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nobel-physics-winners-pride-at-pioneering-ai-role"},"modified":"2026-10-07T21:43:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T02:43:05","slug":"nobel-physics-winners-pride-at-pioneering-ai-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/nobel-physics-winners-pride-at-pioneering-ai-role","title":{"rendered":"Nobel physics winner\u2019s pride at pioneering AI role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nobel-physics-winners-pride-at-pioneering-ai-role.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francis Halzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke with pride on Wednesday about his early promotion of artificial intelligence in his research on neutrinos.<\/p>\n<p>Halzen, 82, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was visiting the city of Turin in northern Italy and spoke to reporters there a day after the Nobel announcement.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.\u2013Belgian physicist is the mind behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-10-nobel-winner-halzen-years-october.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">IceCube neutrino observatory<\/a>, made up of 5,484 optical modules used as sensors deep in the Antarctic ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Halzen, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics, spoke with pride on Wednesday about his early promotion of artificial intelligence in his research on neutrinos. Halzen, 82, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, was visiting the city of Turin in northern Italy and spoke to reporters there a day after the Nobel announcement. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245039","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=245039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}