Washington, United States, Oct 6, 2026 (AFP) - Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over

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2026-10-06

Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades -- but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him "miserable," he admits. "It's a great relief for me, because this was not totally unexpected," he told a press conference Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he serves as a professor. He spoke by video from a hotel room in Italy where he was......

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