China News Service, October 6th. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, at noon on the 6th local time, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics to British scientist Roger Penrose, and the other half to German scientist Reinhard Genzel and American scientist Andrea Ghez, in recognition of their contributions in the field of astrophysics.
Image source: Screenshot of Nobel Prize social media account.
In Nobel's will, written in 1895, calling for the establishment of awards in five fields, physics was the first field he mentioned.
Nobel requires the physics prize to be awarded to "the person who made the most important discovery or invention in the field of physics."
In more than a hundred years, the Physics Award has also been the most awarded by Chinese. A total of 6 Chinese scientists have won this award, including Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning, Ding Zhaozhong, Zhu Diwen, Cui Qi and Gao Kun.