Page 62 - Kerala calling OCTOBER 2020

NOBEL PRIZE
The

Significance Dr. A. Rajagopal Kamath

of Being Writer

a Woman Three women Nobel laureates a year
in science is not common. Andrea
Ghez won the 2020 Nobel Prize in
Physics and Emmanuelle Charpentier
and Jennifer A. Doudna in Chemistry.

Prof. Andrea Ghez Emmanuelle Charpentier Jennifer A. Doudna

Andrea Ghez of the University of orbits of stars at the centre of our concept put forward by Albert
California, USA the fourth woman galaxy. They shared half the prize Einstein. A super massive black
in the history of the Nobel Prize money with Roger Penrose who hole is the only currently known
in Physics, with Reinhard Genzel found that the formation of Black explanation for this.
discovered that an invisible and hole is an inevitable consequence of
extremely heavy object governs the General Relativity, a revolutionary Since the early 1990s, the researchers

KERALA CALLING 62 OCTOBER 2020/prd.kerala.gov.in/publication/keralacalling