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Andrea Ghez becomes 4th woman to receive Nobel Prize in Physics; Check list

Andrea Ghez is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics as she found the first signs of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, she is also the 54th woman to win a Nobel Prize overall.

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Nobel Prize Physics: Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for their research into black holes which is one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe.

However, it should be noted that Andrea Ghez is the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics as she found the first signs of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, she is also the 54th woman to win a Nobel Prize overall.

Apart from her, Marie Curie won the first Nobel prize in Physics in 1903, Maria Goeppert-Mayer  in 1963 and Donna Strickland in 2018.

This year, Genzel, Genzel, of the Max Planck Institute and the University of California, Berkeley, and Ghez, at the University of California, Los Angeles, shared the other half for discovering that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs the orbits of stars at the centre of our galaxy.

Physics is the second of this year’s crop of Nobels to be awarded after three scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of Hepatitis C on Monday.

The Nobel prizes was established in the will of Swedish dynamite inventor and businessman Alfred Nobel and have been awarded since 1901.

This year’s awards occur under the long shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic that has curtailed much of the usual festivities surrounding the prizes and sent the scientific world racing to develop a vaccine and treatment.

David Haviland, chair of the Nobel Committee for Physics, said on awarding the 10 million Swedish crown ($1.1 million) prize, “The discoveries of this year’s Laureates have broken new ground in the study of compact and supermassive objects, but these exotic objects still pose many questions that beg for answers and motivate future research.”

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