Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 predictions and results

[pines-demon]

Wolf Prize 2026

I was not expecting this that soon but Wolf Prize was just announced. The winners are
* Immanuel F. Bloch and Jun Ye for ultracold atom lattices and optical lattice clocks

 

[pines-demon]

QuantumFracture a Spanish popular physics channel predicts:

• Allan McDonalds, Pablo Jarrillo-Herrero, Rafi Bistritzer for graphene magic angle
• Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, David Deutsch for quantum computing stuff

 

[pines-demon]

FromFirstPrinciples podcast a new interesting YouTube channel about science news predicts :

• Michael Berry and Yakir Aharonov for Aharonov-Bohm effect and geometric phases
• Binning and Gerber for atomic force miscroscope

(To be edited later)

 

[pines-demon]

Nobel Week is Here tune in tomorrow for the Nobel Prize in Physics

 

[pines-demon]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to​

FRANCIS HALZEN​

“for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin​

 

[pines-demon]

One recipient is insane. Amazing.

 

[loop quantum gravity]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 to​

FRANCIS HALZEN​

“for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin​

Halzen's from the Quarks and Leptons famous textbook? indeed, wow.

 

[mfb]

First single winner since Georges Charpak in 1992.

 

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[robphy]

It looks like Halzen was already scheduled to be a plenary speaker
at the upcoming AAPT meeting in New Orleans,
before the Nobel prize was awarded.
His biography on the AAPT website below doesn't mention the Nobel Prize.
(Today's email from the AAPT announcing the meeting
does mention the prize:

)


https://www.aapt.org/Conferences/WM2027/plenary-and-awardee-speakers.cfm

Plenary 3
Monday, 11:30am-12:30pm
Francis Halzen

 

[sbrothy]

One recipient is insane. Amazing.

?!

“One thousands publications to his name”

He sounds pretty Erdős-ish to me.

 

[pines-demon]

This year Nobel Prize in Medicine went to two biophysicists.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry is interesting as it is related to how they mostly solve the problem of chirality of molecules on Earth.