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Stanford’s Karl Deisseroth Shares Nobel Prize in Medicine for Optogenetics, the Light Switch That Lets Scientists Control Brain Cells

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Deisseroth and German researchers Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a light-sensitive algae protein and turning it into a tool that switches neurons on with blue light.

IceCube Laboratory building at the South Pole under a starry night sky

Wisconsin Physicist Francis Halzen Wins Nobel Prize for IceCube, the South Pole Detector That Caught Neutrinos From Deep Space

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The Belgian-born University of Wisconsin–Madison professor first proposed using Antarctic ice to catch high-energy neutrinos in 1988. The cubic-kilometer IceCube observatory he championed opened a new window on the violent universe.