Cosmoparticle Breakthrough Awarded

by Annica Black-Schaffer 31 Dec 2013 Awards, In the Media
Published in the "Nordic News" section of Nordita News issue 4, 2013

The IceCube Lab in March, 2013. Image credit: IceCube Collaboration.

The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory was named the Physics World 2013 Breakthrough of the year, "for making the first observations of high-energy cosmic neutrinos". Nordic partners in this world-wide scientific collaboration are the high-energy physics groups at Stockholm University and Uppsala University in Sweden, and NBI in Denmark.