The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020

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