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Georgia Michelman

Georgia Michelman is a New York-based science and health journalist and Smithsonian magazine’s current intern from the 2026 class of New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program. Her work has appeared in Science, Knowable Magazine, Live Science and elsewhere.

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Francis Halzen is a Belgian American physicist who studies neutrinos, sometimes called "ghost particles," which come from space and rarely interact with ordinary matter.

Physicist Wins Nobel Prize for Developing a Massive, Ice-Embedded Observatory That Detects Ghostly Cosmic Particles

Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison led the effort to build the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica. His work birthed the field of neutrino astronomy