2020 Nobel Prize winners

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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2020 was awarded jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C v*rus."

BBC article:

ETA:

The prize-awarding institutions have decided to announce their prize decisions as follows:

Physiology or Medicine - Monday 5 October, 11:30 CEST at the earliest
Physics - Tuesday 6 October, 11:45 CEST at the earlies
Chemistry - Wednesday 7 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest
Literature - Thursday 8 October, 13:00 CEST at the earliest
Peace - Friday 9 October, 11:00 CEST
Economic Sciences - Monday 12 October, 11:45 CEST at the earliest

All announcements will be streamed live here:
 
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy."

 
Berkeley is certainly pushing back on the idea that they have been surpassed by UCLA with Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry in the same year :wideeyes:
 
And the Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna “for the development of a method for genome editing”. Very well deserved!!!
Girl power! This is the first time that two women have won a science Nobel together (with no men involved).
And for recent research, too - not always the case with Nobel prizes.

Berkeley is certainly pushing back on the idea that they have been surpassed by UCLA with Nobel Laureates in Physics and Chemistry in the same year :wideeyes:
UCLA has a physics laureate too, though ;)
 
Girl power! This is the first time that two women have won a science Nobel together (with no men involved).

:respec:

In all seriousness, thank goodness! It beats what used to happen {{cough, cough Rosalind Franklin}}
 
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I took a creative writing class my senior year in high school and Louise Gluck came to lecture us. I remember very little about it except she was emotionally quite dark.

Her younger sister Tereze was maybe a year behind my brother in school and two years ahead of me (it could have been two years behind my brother and one ahead of me- I honestly don't remember) and she was the only person in high school that was known and liked by both my brother and me. If Louise was darkness, Tereze was light.

So Louise winning the Nobel Prize is very exciting for me (and for a friend of mine from high school who just called to say she and Tereze had been in gym class together).
 
I took a creative writing class my senior year in high school and Louise Gluck came to lecture us. I remember very little about it except she was emotionally quite dark.

Her younger sister Tereze was maybe a year behind my brother in school and two years ahead of me (it could have been two years behind my brother and one ahead of me- I honestly don't remember) and she was the only person in high school that was known and liked by both my brother and me. If Louise was darkness, Tereze was light.

So Louise winning the Nobel Prize is very exciting for me (and for a friend of mine from high school who just called to say she and Tereze had been in gym class together).
The Glück sisters are relatives of a good friend of mine. I definitely met Tereze when my friend and I were in the US together, but we can't remember if we also met Louise :)
 

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