Nobel Prize Physics 2020

Premio Nobel per la fisica 2020 (a fine pagina articolo da Physics World con video dell’intervista a Roger Penrose 2015)

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.”

L’annuncio
Announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics by Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, on 6 October 2020.
https://youtu.be/5JFKNDVmx6k

Il comunicato stampa
Press release 6 october 2020

I vincitori
Roger Penrose, born 1931 in Colchester, UK. Ph.D. 1957 from University of Cambridge, UK. Professor at University of Oxford, UK.

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

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

Notizie riportate dal sito:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/

Approfondimento:
Roger Penrose discusses his career in mathematical physics
Articolo con intervista e video