The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020
Awarded on: 2020-10-06
"for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Affiliations:
- University of California – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Andrea Ghez
Born: 1965-06-16 in New York, NY, USA
Gender: female
Field: American astronomer (born 1965)
Biography
Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate, and professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics, at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy.