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Physics Nobel Prize also for researchers from Bavaria - Merkel congratulates

2020-10-07T15:02:56.083Z


The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three winners, including a German.


The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced three winners, including a German.

  • The

    Nobel Prize in Physics

    is the highest honor for physicists.

  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the

    2020 Nobel Prize in Physics

    on Tuesday

    .

  • There are three winners, including a researcher from Bavaria.

Update from October 6th, 4.40 p.m.:

Chancellor

Angela Merkel

has

congratulated

the German astrophysicist

Reinhard Genzel

on being awarded the

Nobel Prize in Physics

.

As government

spokesman

Steffen Seibert

announced on Twitter on Tuesday, the Chancellor praised Genzel's “groundbreaking achievement in the exploration of black holes”.

The director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching receives the Nobel Prize together with the British researcher Roger Penrose and the US scientist Andrea Ghezin.

According to Seibert, Merkel also expressly congratulated them on their success.

Chancellor #Merkel: “A great recognition for your groundbreaking achievement in the exploration of black holes: Congratulations on the Physics # Nobel Prize, Reinhard #Genzel.

Congratulations to Andrea #Ghez and Roger #Penrose too! “Https://t.co/t2lwfgaBGi

- Steffen Seibert (@RegSsprecher) October 6, 2020

Federal Research Minister

Anja Karliczek also

congratulated the award winners.

It was "a very special day for all of us," she said in Berlin.

Ultimately, the honor for Genzel is also “an award for the entire science location Germany”.

Karliczek described the research into black holes as "fascinating".

While Penrose provided theoretical foundations, Genzel and Ghezin had used

telescopes

"with tremendous representational power" for

25 years to

get closer to

the secrets of

astronomical phenomena

.

By awarding all three researchers, the Nobel Prize Committee also recognized that science works best with the help of cooperation and division of labor.

First announcement

: Stockholm - Half of this year's Nobel Prize for 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.

pic.twitter.com/MipWwFtMjz

- The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 6, 2020

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, 215 researchers have now received the Nobel Prize in Physics, including four women.

  • 2020 Andrea Ghez

  • 2018

    Donna Strickland

  • 1963

    Maria Goeppert-Mayer

  • 1903

    Marie Curie

    (who was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911)

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)

List of rubric lists: © M.Weiss / NASA / Chandra X-ray Observatory / AP / dpa

Source: merkur

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