# How a Soviet physicist’s 1960 idea led to neutrino astronomy and this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics

https://mins.news/en/item/88728

- Meduza, 2026-10-06 21:48 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/10/07/how-a-soviet-physicist-s-1960-idea-led-to-the-birth-of-neutrino-astronomy-and-this-year-s-nobel-prize-in-physics

> The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics went to Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for his decisive contribution to the IceCube neutrino observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from astrophysical sources. The article traces the project to Moisey Markov’s 1960 proposal to detect neutrinos in large bodies of water or ice, and compares IceCube with the Baikal-GVD observatory in Lake Baikal.

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