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Penrose awarded Nobel Prize in Physics
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Roger Penrose was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes and the theory of relativity. His groundbreaking work has given value to the prize, rather than the prize giving value to him.
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Roger Penrose, the British physicist and mathematician, was named a co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries about black holes.
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Roger Penrose, the British physicist and mathematician, was named a co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries about black holes. Penrose's work, which he published in the 1960s, proved that black holes are a direct consequence of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.