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Roger Penrose of Britain, Reinhard Genzel of Germany and Andrea Ghez of the US have won the Nobel Physics Prize for their research into black holes, the Nobel jury announces. SOUNDBITE
Professor Göran K. Hansson, Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, announces that Canadian-American James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the Nobel Physics Prize for their work in cosmology. Peebles wins one-half of the prize "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," while Mayor and Queloz share the other half "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star." SOUNDBITE
France's Gerard Mourou says he was "stunned" to learn that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with the American Arthur Ashkin and the Canadian Donna Strickland. He reacts from the Polytechnic School of Palaiseau, near Paris, where his laboratory is located. The trio of physicists was rewarded for its ground-breaking discoveries harnessing the power of lasers. SOUNDBITE
Three researchers share the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury says. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada shared the other half. SOUNDBITE
US astrophysicists Barry Barish, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss win the Nobel Physics Prize for their discovery of gravitational waves. SOUNDBITE
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