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Reinhard Genzel
[Award-winning glory]
On October 6, 2020, he won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of a supermassive object in the center of the Milky Way.
[resume]
Reinhard Genzel, born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1952, received his PhD from the University of Bonn in 1978. Physicist, Fellow of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, and Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. His research field is astrophysics. He is currently the director of the Max Planck Institute for Space Physics in Munich, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and an honorary professor at the University of Munich.
[Major achievements]
Since nothing, not even light, can escape black holes, they can only be observed by the radiation and the movement of nearby objects. Since the 1990s, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez with their respective research teams, have developed and refined techniques for studying the movement of stars. Observations of stars in the area around Sagittarius A* in the middle of our galaxy, the Milky Way, revealed a super massive black hole.
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