Shishnarfne
2020-10-06, 12:03 PM
Press Release for 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/press-release/)
Penrose has long been a famous name in the field, and was honored for his work in showing that black holes were a prediction of general relativity.
(I like to joke about black holes being "divide by zero" errors in the curvature of spacetime.)
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez both led teams that tracked stars (and other objects) near to Sagittarius A*, leading to the conclusion that our Milky Way Galaxy orbits around a supermassive black hole.
Dr. Ghez is only the fourth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics, with Dr. Donna Strickland earning (a share of) the prize in 2018 for her work on laser development. Prior to Dr. Strickland, the Nobel Committee for Physics had gone 55 years since honoring Maria Goeppert Mayer without recognizing a female recipient.
Congratulations to all three honorees!
Penrose has long been a famous name in the field, and was honored for his work in showing that black holes were a prediction of general relativity.
(I like to joke about black holes being "divide by zero" errors in the curvature of spacetime.)
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez both led teams that tracked stars (and other objects) near to Sagittarius A*, leading to the conclusion that our Milky Way Galaxy orbits around a supermassive black hole.
Dr. Ghez is only the fourth woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Physics, with Dr. Donna Strickland earning (a share of) the prize in 2018 for her work on laser development. Prior to Dr. Strickland, the Nobel Committee for Physics had gone 55 years since honoring Maria Goeppert Mayer without recognizing a female recipient.
Congratulations to all three honorees!