One winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, Roger Penrose, is based in Oxford where he also plays Chief Superintendent Bright in the popular TV detective series Endeavour…
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Astronomy Look-alikes No. 101
Posted in Astronomy Lookalikes, Television, The Universe and Stuff with tags 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, Anton Lesser, Chief Superintendent Bright, Endeavour, Oxford, Roger Penrose on October 6, 2020 by telescoperThe 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics
Posted in The Universe and Stuff with tags 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics, Andre Ghez, Reinhard Genzel, Roger Penrose on October 6, 2020 by telescoperI don’t know about you but I was a bit surprised by this year’s announcement of the Physics Nobel Prize but that’s largely because it went to something cosmic last year and not because I disapprove in any way. Roger Penrose’s work in the 1960s on the black hole singularity theorems is rightly famous and the observational discovery of the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way is also more than worthy of recognition.
Congratulations to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez!
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