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Nobel winner Halzen says years of October 'misery' finally over

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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.

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  • Reported by Phys.org and published Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:00:01 UTC.

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