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Born March 24, 1952 (age 74) • Bad Homburg • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (2020)
Subjects Of Study black hole
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Andrea Ghez
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
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Kip Thorne
American physicist
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James Peebles
American physicist
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Didier Queloz
Swiss astronomer
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Michel Mayor
Swiss astronomer
Chandrasekhar, Subrahmanyan
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
American astronomer
Adam Riess
Adam Riess
American astronomer
Sir Martin Ryle.
Sir Martin Ryle
British astronomer
An artist's representation of Penrose tiling
Roger Penrose
British mathematician
Brian P. Schmidt.
Brian P. Schmidt
American-born Australian astronomer
Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Albert Einstein
German-American physicist
Werner Karl Heisenberg sits at a desk in a suit with his hands folded, bookshelves in the background.
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Max Planck
Max Planck
German physicist
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Rainer Weiss
American physicist
Max Born
Max Born
German physicist
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Klaus Hasselmann
German oceanographer
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Maria Goeppert Mayer
American physicist
Störmer, Horst L.
Horst L. Störmer
German-American physicist
Theodor W. Hänsch
Theodor W. Hänsch
German scientist

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