Neutrino discovery named ’Breakthrough of the Year’

Physics World honour latest accolade for IceCube Collaboration scientists, including a team from UAlberta. IceCube Collaboration scientists toast the completion of their Antarctic particle detector in December 2010. Now they have a new reason to cheer. (Photo: Chad Carpenter. IceCube/NSF) It's not every day that one has a hand in creating a new scientific field that could vastly improve our understanding of the universe. But that's just the kind of month it's been for Darren Grant and an international team of scientists who found the first evidence of high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system. Grant, a physicist in the Faculty of Science at the University of Alberta, led Canada's contributions to the IceCube Collaboration , which includes 250 scientists from around the globe.