Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”
Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy
Roger Penrose
Born: 8 August 1931, Colchester, United Kingdom
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Reinhard Genzel
Born: 24 March 1952, Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
Andrea Ghez
Born: 16 June 1965, New York, NY, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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