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Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in physics

Oct 6, 1 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET

19outlets carried it
🫏11 · 5 · 3🐘left · center · right
6 hourson the front pages
23front pages at once, at its peak
8 minof TV captions
1radio newscast
2 of 2parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 6, 1 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 6, 2 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Economist
Oct 6, 2 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 6, 4 PM ETpeak: on 23 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 6, 1 PM to Oct 6, 7 PM ET (peak 18), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 quoted: “ghost particle” 2 “Ghost particles”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 3 scientists

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Forbes (2 wordings): “University Of Wisconsin Professor Wins The 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics” → “Read More: University Of Wisconsin Professor Wins The 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Belgian-American scientist wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics” → “US, Belgian, German scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize”

Every outlet's first headline (19), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Prize In Physics For Work On High-Energy Neutrinos Of Astrophysical Origin Oct 6, 6 AM ET
AP Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics Oct 6, 10 AM ET
NBC News Francis Halzen wins physics Nobel for South Pole high-energy neutrino discoveries Oct 6, 9 AM ET
NPR Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space Oct 6, 7 AM ET
New York Times Nobel Prize in Physics Is Awarded to Francis Halzen for Work on Neutrinos Oct 6, 7 AM ET
PBS NewsHour WATCH: Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for demystifying neutrinos Oct 6, 9 AM ET
Semafor Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to ‘ghost particle’ scientist Oct 6, 7 PM ET
The Economist A Nobel for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos Oct 6, 2 PM ET
The Independent Who is Francis Halzen? The 82-year-old Nobel Prize winner in physics Oct 6, 8 AM ET
Time Meet the 2026 Nobel Prize Winners Oct 6, 4 PM ET
USA Today Belgian-American scientist wins 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics Oct 6, 7 AM ET
BBC 'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel Oct 6, 7 AM ET
Chicago Tribune Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on mysterious ghost particles called neutrinos Oct 6, 8 AM ET
Forbes University Of Wisconsin Professor Wins The 2026 Nobel Prize In Physics Oct 6, 7 AM ET
Reuters Francis Halzen wins Nobel physics prize for Antarctic 'ghost particle' hunt - Reuters Oct 6, 12 PM ET
WSJ Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Francis Halzen for Astronomy Breakthroughs Oct 6, 7 AM ET
IJR Report names Francis Halzen as 2026 Nobel physics laureate Oct 6, 9 AM ET
New York Post Belgian-American scientist wins Nobel Prize in physics Oct 6, 7 AM ET
The Daily Wire Scientists Win Nobel Prize For Turning Brain Cells On And Off. It Began With Pond Scum. Oct 5, 6 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

BBC News8 min

Nobel prize for South Pole neutrino detector BBC News, 3 min
Francis Halzen wins 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics BBC News, 61 s
Pioneering work tracks elusive 'cosmic messengers' BBC News, 51 s
Halzen: Inbox 'beyond anything you can handle' BBC News, 51 s
Nobel Prize in Physics BBC News, 50 s
Prize goes to research into Antarctic neutrinos BBC News, 43 s
South Pole particle detector wins Nobel Prize BBC News, 41 s
'Neutrino man' opens new era of astronomy BBC News, 40 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 6, 2:09 PM ET: story 4 of 4

🎙️ Shows, investigators, satire

🎙️ 📺 Ben Shapiro 🎙️ Morning Wire

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Francis Halzen University Of Wisconsin Nobel Prize Antarctic Neutrinos Space Telescope

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Nobel Prize for neutrino research

Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in physics for neutrino research
Oct 6, 8 AM ET
Francis Halzen awarded Nobel Prize in physics (this story)
Oct 6, 1 PM ET