[ad_1]
the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 half was divided to Roger Penrose “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”, the other half along with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object in the center of our galaxy. ”This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Nobel Prize in Medicine, prize for scientists who “discovered the hepatitis C virus”
Roger Penrose was awarded for having developed the mathematical method to prove Einstein’s theory of general relativity and for having come, along this way, to demonstrate that the theory foresees the formation of black holes, cosmic monsters that occupy space. time capturing everything close to you. Later, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, is occupied by an invisible and massive object. In light of current knowledge, the only possible explanation is the existence of a black hole.
THE AWARDED An internationally renowned cosmologist, Penrose was born in 1932 in Great Britain, in Colchester, and in 1957 he graduated from Cambridge University. He has taught for a long time at the University of Oxford.
Reinhard Genzel was born in 1952 in Germany, in Bad Homburg vor der H ”he. He graduated in 1978 from the German University of Bonn and later directed the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. He later moved to the United States to teach at the University of California at Berkeley. The youngest of the winners, Andrea Ghez, was born in 1965 in the United States, in New York, and in 1992 he graduated from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He currently teaches at the University of California at Los Angeles.
NOBEL LITERATURE The naturalized Caribbean American writer Jamaica Kincaid, 71, and the Canadian poet Anne Carson, 70, are listed as possible winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The prestigious award from the Royal Swedish Academy will be announced next Thursday, October 8. , at 1 pm According to the betting site Ladbrokes, among the favorites to win would also be Maryse Condè, the Guadeloupean writer who in 2018 was awarded the New Academy of Literature Prize, the alternative Nobel prize that is awarded in the absence of the traditional prize . . Other big names for gamblers include Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood, and Kenyan poet and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o. However, according to rumors picked up by the Stockholm press, the Swedish Academy could also “dust off some old candidates” such as the Hungarian Peter Nadas, the Albanian Ismael Kadare, the Romanian Mircea Cartarescu or the Israeli David Grossman.
After the double prize awarded last year (in 2019 to the Austrian writer Peter Handke and in 2018 to the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk), the Nobel Prize for Literature returns in 2020 to the traditional cadence of a single winner. The juries of the Nobel Prize for Literature – who have already decided on the name – have found harmony of intent after the sexual harassment scandal that swept the Swedish Academy in 2018 with numerous resignations and various changes in internal regulations. The storm led to the conviction for rape of Jean-Claude Arnault, husband of the poet Katarina Frostenson, forced to leave the headquarters of the Swedish Academy for having covered up, along with other jurors, the harassment of her powerful husband. This year, the winners of all Nobel prizes will receive a larger sum of money than in the recent past. The Nobel Foundation announced that the endowment of each award has increased to 10 million Swedish crowns ($ 1.1 million), up from 9 million in recent years. As usual, the awards ceremony will be held on December 10, the anniversary of the death of the Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite, who established the awards. But it won’t be solemn or mundane like in previous years due to Covid. The gala banquet at Stockholm City Hall has been canceled.
Last updated: 13:11
© REPRODUCTION RESERVED
[ad_2]
