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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that black holes are a direct consequence of the general theory of relativity. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that an…

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Swedish 6 oktober 2020 har beslutat utdela Nobelpriset i fysik 2020 med ena hälften till Roger Penrose University of Oxford, Storbritannien “för upptäckten att bildandet av svarta hål är en robust förutsägelse av den allmänna relativitetsteorin” och med andra hälften gemensamt till Reinhard Genzel Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Tyskland och University of California, Berkeley,…

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English 6 October 2020 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 with one half to Roger Penrose University of Oxford, UK “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity” and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics,…

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Interview

Interview, February 2021 Photo courtesy of University of Alberta “We’re all on a learning curve” Nobelprize.org interviewed Michael Houghton on 1 February 2021. We spoke with him about his journey into science, his advice for students and the importance of persistence. Nobel Minds 2020 Five of the 2020 Nobel Laureates met digitally on 10…

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