IceCube submits proposal for cubic-kilometer South Pole neutrino detector
In November 1999, the fledgling IceCube Collaboration (mostly members of the AMANDA Collaboration) submitted a 67-page proposal for a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector at the South Pole to the US National Science Foundation and to partners in Belgium, Germany, and Sweden. In it, the University of Wisconsin–Madison was designated the lead institution, Francis Halzen was principal investigator, and Bob Paulos was project manager.