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Reinhard Genzel
Acting
24 Mar 1952 (74 years)
Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany
Biography
Reinhard Genzel is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose. In a 2021 interview given to Federal University of Pará in Brazil, Genzel recalls his journey as a physicist; the inf...
Also Known As
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel
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