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Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 announced

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity. The other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy.

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.

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About Roger Penrose

Roger Penrose, born 1931 in Colchester, UK
PhD. 1957 from the University of Cambridge, UK
Professor at the University of Oxford, UK

About Reinhard Genzel

Reinhard Genzel, born 1952 in Bad Homburg vor der Hohe, Germany
PhD. 1978 from University of Bonn, Germany
Director at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany and Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

About Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez, born 1965 in City of New York, USA
PhD. 1992 from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA

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