recognised alongside the work of the american astronomer, andrea ghez and the german astrophysicist, reinhard genzelbout the achievement and began by asking him how he heard he had been given the award. you see, their messages that came in and they got dropped off and it was waiting between one message in the next. i did not know what was going on. idid next. i did not know what was going on. i did not know that it was the year of the nobel prize. so, i went toa year of the nobel prize. so, i went to a shower and the phone rang again and so, i had to come out and do... yes, people always ask what we're doing at times, when you heard about the price. it's an amazing achievement and you had many amazing achievements in your life, but how does this rank? be a nobel prize winner? it's an honour. it is the prime one, of course. yes, there have been other impressive things the people have awarded me for blood, the nobel prize is very special and i am really honoured and i think it is a great privilege to be able to help someone. indirect consequence of the theory of relativity but this is a discovery made

roger penrose, reinhard genzel, and andrea gehz received the award. american astronomer ghez is only the fourth woman to ever win the nobel prize in physics. on monday, two american scientists and one british scientist -- harvey alter, charles rice, and michael houghton -- jointly won the 2020 nobel prize for medicine for their work in identifying the hepatitis c virus, which causes cirrhosis and liver cancer. the nobel peace prize will be announced on and those are some friday. of theeadlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york city, joined by my co-host juan gonzez in nebrunswick, new jersey. hiuan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: in a shocking show of recklessness, president trump left walter reed national military medical center for the white house on monday evening, staging a series of photo ops as he walked out through its golden doors after a 72 hours day and boarded the presidential helicopter back to the whit

briton roger penrose, german reinhard genzel and american andrea ghez were honored today. it is believed that black holes are tied to the creation of galaxies, and that they swallow light and even time. but, ghez says much about them remains a mystery. >> because they're so hard to understand, is what makes them so appealing. this idea that there are objects that represent the breakdown of our understanding of the physical world and where you get this mixing of space and time. >> woodruff: ghez is just the fourth woman to be awarded the nobel prize for physics. democrats on the u.s. house judiciary committee called today for curbing big tech companies. a 450-page report found amazon, google, facebook and apple have abused their market dominance by charging excessive fees and extracting valuable data from users. recommendations include forcing the firms to divest related businesses. also today, facebook announced a ban on groups that promote q- anon. that's the conspiracy theory claiming there's a child- trafficking ring run by celebrities and so-called "deep state" officia

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the rest of the prize is shared between german scientist andrea ghez and american reinhard genzel forward of the nobel prize at that point so i went to take a shower and then the phone rang again so i had to come out. i know people always ask what you were doing when you found out. amazing achievement. you have had many amazing achievements in your life but how does this rank? what does it feel like to be a nobel prizewinner? as an honour it is the main one, of course. the main scientific honour. there have been other impressive things which people seem other impressive things which people seem to have awarded me for. you nobel prize is something very special and i'm really honoured and i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winners. i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winnersm i think it is a great privilege to join the nobel prize winners. it is for your work on black holes and that they are a direct consequence of einstein's theory of relativity but this was a discovery made quite a long time ago? 1964, yes. mathematical piece of work so i don't