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Daily chart – The Nobel prize delay is growing | Graphic detail – The Economist
Scientists often wait decades to be recognised with the prestigious prize
ALBERT EINSTEIN doubted the existence of black holes. In 1939 he even tried to prove that the celestial objectswhich are so dense that light itself cannot escape their gravitational pulldo not exist in the real world. But in 1965, ten years after Einsteins death, Roger Penrose, a British physicist, wrote a groundbreaking paper that used maths to prove that black holes are a necessary consequence of the theory of relativity. This week, aged 89, Sir Roger won the Nobel prize for physics for his se…
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