A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology
“To my great surprise, there was a breaking news story: Francis Halzen had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. I immediately started sending messages, only to discover that my colleagues in Europe had found out long before I did.”Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez works at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The new Nobel laureate is his boss.“When I arrived at the WIPAC offices, everyone was smiling and congratulating one another,” Díaz Vélez says.
- ▪“To my great surprise, there was a breaking news story: Francis Halzen had just been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- ▪I immediately started sending messages, only to discover that my colleagues in Europe had found out long before I did.”Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez works at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- ▪The new Nobel laureate is his boss.“When I arrived at the WIPAC offices, everyone was smiling and congratulating one another,” Díaz Vélez says.
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Javier CarbajalScienceOct 8, 2026 5:15 AMA Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology“Detecting a neutrino is like looking for a needle in a haystack,” says Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez, who breaks down why researchers are looking for the cosmic particles under the Antarctic ice.Workers at the construction site of China's new underground neutrino detector, JUNO.Photograph: Qiu Xinsheng/Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this story“for some reason, I woke up at 5:30, and the first thing I did was go to the New York Times website to check the headlines,” Juan Carlos Díaz Vélez recalls of the previous morning.
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