New Academy Lecture featuring Nobel Prize-winning physicist Reinhard Genzel on 24 June 2026 - Universität Hamburg

Reinhard Genzel
Get notified whenever this star has news
Browse by day
Who is this?
Reinhard Genzel (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪnhaʁt ˈɡɛntsl̩] ; born 24 March 1952) is a German astrophysicist, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, a professor at LMU and an emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy", which he shared with Andrea Ghez and Roger Penrose. In a 2021 interview given to Federal University of
What happened recently
Reinhard Genzel, Nobel laureate in physics: ‘One-minute videos will never give you the truth’ - EL PAÍS English
Nobel prize: how Penrose, Genzel and Ghez helped put black holes at the centre of modern astrophysics
UC Berkeley played big role in Reinhard Genzel’s Nobel Prize-winning work - University of California, Berkeley
UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in Physics - University of California, Berkeley
Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Roger Penrose for black hole discovery; and to Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Ghez
Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez awarded 2020 Nobel Prize in physics