The rarity of female Nobel laureates raises questions about women’s exclusion from education and careers in science and the undervaluing of women’s contributions on science teams, and although women researchers have come a long way over the past century, there is still overwhelming evidence that women remain underrepresented in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 was divided, one half awarded to Roger Penrose "for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity", the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy"
Among Nobel Prize winners honored in Stockholm this year were a number with ties to MIT including 2022 winners, but also winners from 2020 and 2021, who were not able to experience the traditional Nobel celebration due to Covid-19 precautions.
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 was awarded jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science"