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Nobel Prize is announced at an international level which is administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Recently Nobel Prize winners for the r 2020 were announced. The recipients of the Nobel Prize 2020 are (1) Reinhard Genzel and Andreas Ghez for the discovery of supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy, (2) Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Nobel Prize is announced at an international level which is administered by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden. Recently Nobel Prize winners for the r 2020 were announced. The recipients of the Nobel Prize 2020 are (1) Reinhard Genzel and Andreas Ghez for the discovery of supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy, (2) Gerard Mourou and Donna Strickland for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. Select the correct answer using the code given below. Correct Answer 1 only

The correct answer is 1 only.

Key Points​

  • The recipients of the Nobel Prize 2020 are
    • Reinhard Genzel and Andreas Ghez for the discovery of supermassive compact objects at the center of our galaxy.​Hence statement 1 is correct.
    • The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics" with one half to Arthur Ashkin "for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems", the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland "for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. "Hence statement 2 is not correct.

​​​Additional Information

  • Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was awarded to three astrophysicists 
    • Roger Penrose from the UK, Reinhard Genzel from Germany, and Andrea Ghez 
  •  Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for developing CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors, one of gene technology’s sharpest tools
    • Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer A Doudna.
  • The 2020 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the World Food Programme (WFP), a United Nations (UN) agency, for its efforts to combat hunger, bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas, and preventing the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict.
  • Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2020 for their work on commercial auctions
    • American economists, Paul Milgrom, and Robert Wilson 
  • The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 has been awarded to
    • Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."

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