# Nobel physics winner says he 'just had to live long enough' to win

https://mins.news/en/video/88770

- The Associated Press, 2026-10-06 22:09 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew2mw1U2U04

> Belgian-born physicist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in physics for work clarifying a rare class of neutrinos. Researchers believe the tiny cosmic particles can reveal clues about how the universe evolved. Halzen is a physicist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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