The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three winners, including a German.
Stockholm - Half of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics goes to
Roger Penrose
(Great Britain) and the other half to
Reinhard Genzel
(Germany, Garching near Munich) and
Andrea Ghez
(USA) for research on black holes.
BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.
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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday in Stockholm.
Reinhard Genzel
is director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching near Munich.
Roger Penrose
(born 1931) receives the award for discovering that
black hole formation is
a robust prediction of general relativity.
Penrose invented ingenious mathematical methods to research Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, as announced by the Nobel Committee.
He has shown that this theory leads to the formation of black holes, those monsters in time and space that capture everything that comes close to them.
Reinhard Genzel (born 1952) and
Andrea Ghez
(born 1965) are honored
for the discovery of a supermassive compact object in the center of our galaxy
.
Genzel and Ghez discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object dominates the orbits of the stars in the center of our galaxy.
A supermassive black hole is the only currently known explanation for this.
Nobel Prize in Physics - Highest award for physicists
The highest award for physicists this year is endowed with a total of ten million kroner (around 950,000 euros) - one million kroner more than last year.
Since it was first awarded in 1901, 212 researchers have received the Nobel Prize in Physics, including three women.
The American John Bardeen got it twice.
Last year, the US cosmologist James Peebles and the Swiss exoplanet explorers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz shared the award for their groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the cosmos.
The
German
physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen received
the
first Nobel Prize
in
Physics
in 1901
for the discovery of the X-rays named after him.
(dpa, AFP)
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