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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2002
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
"for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
Raymond Davis Jr.
Masatoshi Koshiba
Riccardo Giacconi
1/4 of the prize
1/4 of the prize
1/2 of the prize
USA
Japan
USA
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA, USA
University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Associated Universities Inc.
Washington, DC, USA
b. 1914
d. 2006
b. 1926
b. 1931
(in Genoa, Italy)
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