
Reinhard Genzel
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2020for the discovery of a supermassive compact objectat the centre of our galaxy
- Citizenship
Germany
- Languages
- German
- date of birth
- 3/24/1952
- place of birth
- Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
- Age
- 74 years
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- occupation
- astronomer
- university teacher
- astrophysicist
- scientist
- field of work
- science
- astrophysics
- submillimetre astronomy
- infrared astronomy
- educated at
- University of Bonn
- academic major: physics
- end time: 1975
- University of Freiburg
- Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg
- University of Bonn
- employer
- Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
- work location
- Munich
- member of
- Royal Society of London
- French Academy of Sciences
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 2000
- Academia Europaea
- start time: 1995
- Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- International Astronomical Union
- doctoral student
- Shy Genel