Physics: Andrea Ghez

Physics: Andrea Ghez
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Andrea Ghez (1965) Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist.

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Andrea Ghez (1965 ) Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist.

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Why is Andrea Ghez remembered? Every major advance in physics was made by a person working to understand something that didn't quite make sense yet. Andrea Ghez was one of those people.

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About Andrea Ghez Andrea Mia Ghez (born June 16, 1965) is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy". This object is generally recognized to be a black hole. Her research focuses on the center of the Milky Way galaxy. She is a 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. With Judith Love Cohen, she is the author of the book You Can Be a Woman Astronomer.