The Nobel Prize medal and diploma were presented to physics laureate Reinhard Genzel at the Bavarian State Chancellery (Bayerische Staatskanzlei) in Munich on 8 December 2020.

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Reinhard Genzel showing his Nobel Prize medal.

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Reinhard Genzel’s Nobel Prize medal

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Physics laureates Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden on 10 December 2022.

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Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez at the Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm.

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Reinhard Genzel and Anna Björklund at the Nobel Prize banquet, 10 December 2022.

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Reinhard Genzel signs the Nobel Foundation's guest book, signed by the laureates since 1952, during his visit to the Nobel Foundation on 7 December 2022.

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Reinhard Genzel arriving at the laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2022.

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Reinhard Genzel signing a chair at the Nobel Prize Museum

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Laureates Reinhard Genzel, Svante Pääbo, Emmanuelle Charpentier and Anton Zeilinger at the laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2022.

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Portrait of 2020 Physics Laureate Reinhard Genzel.

Photo: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft – Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik.

This photo of Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel was snapped after he discovered he had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Photographer: Dr. Stefan Gillessen.

Image from the press conference on 6 October, 2020 at Max Planck Institute. The press conference took place after it was announced that Reinhard Genzel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020.

Photo credit: Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching

Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel with his mentor and fellow Nobel Laureate Charles Townes in Townes' office. Townes sadly passed away in 2015 but on the day of the announcement Reinhard Genzel received congratulatory emails from Townes' four daughters.

Photo credit: UC Berkeley Physics Department

Portrait of Reinhard Genzel taken in 2012.

Photo: Jan Nordén, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences