{"id":448696,"date":"2020-10-07T11:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=448696"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:07:40","slug":"andrea-ghez-california-masters-swimmer-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/andrea-ghez-california-masters-swimmer-wins-nobel-prize-in-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Ghez, California Masters Swimmer, Wins Nobel Prize in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrea Ghez<\/strong>, one of three recipients of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics, is a distinguished <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usms.org\/fitness-and-training\/articles-and-videos\/articles\/usms-member-andrea-ghez-receives-nobel-prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Masters swimmer in California<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ghez was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nobel-prize-winning-black-hole-researcher-holds-a-map-of-stars-in-her-mindhttps:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nobel-prize-winning-black-hole-researcher-holds-a-map-of-stars-in-her-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced this week<\/a> as the winner of the Nobel Prize for her work on black holes, specifically the discovery of one at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*. She shares the award with <strong>Reinhard Genzel<\/strong> and <strong>Roger Penrose.<\/strong> She\u2019s just the fourth woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics, joining <strong>Marie Curie<\/strong> (1903), <strong>Maria Goeppert Mayer<\/strong> (1963) and <strong>Donna Strickland<\/strong> (2018).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI heard the news with a phone call at 2 in the morning, so I was fast asleep,\u201d Ghez said in an interview conducted with The Nobel Prize\u2019s Adam Smith. \u201cAnd I think for the first few minutes I thought I was dreaming. I still can\u2019t quite believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to her research, Ghez is a Masters swimmer with UCLA Bruin Masters. A native of New York City, she studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and got her Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology. 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