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This year's #NobelPrize laureates have received their medals. If the October prize announcements feel like two years ago rather than two months, check out this thread on some of the prizewinning work:
Roger Penrose received half of the #NobelPrize in Physics for his theoretical work on black holes doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4…
Andrea Ghez and Reinhard Genzel shared half the #NobelPrize in Physics “for their discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy” doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4…
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna shared the #NobelPrize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR-Cas genome editing doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.4…

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