# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/francis-halzen
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:34:57.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/francis-halzen"
name: "Francis Halzen"
slug: "francis-halzen"
description: "Francis Louis Halzen is a Belgian particle physicist. He is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Director of its Institute for Elementary Particle Physics. Halzen is the Principal Investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, the world's largest neutrino detector which has been operational since 2010."
tagline: "American astrophysicist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-03-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.83
  momentum:             1.298076923076923
  historical:           7.40846
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Френсіс Гальзен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "فرانسيس هالزين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Halzen"
    title: "Francis Halzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Halzen"
    title: "Francis Halzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Halzen"
    title: "Francis Halzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%AB%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3"
    title: "フランシス・ハルツェン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Halzen"
    title: "Francis Halzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Halzen"
    title: "Francis Halzen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20942818"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump