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Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on black holes.

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics brings together the physics of materials with one of our favourite areas of maths – topology.

In 1982 Dan Shechtman discovered a crystal that would revolutionise chemistry. He has just been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery — but has the Nobel committee missed out a chance to honour a mathematician for his role in this revolution as well?

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for a discovery that proved Einstein wrong and right at the same time.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded.

Winning the first Abel Prize just might elevate mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre to celebrity status!

Mathematics makes a clean sweep in the Nobel Prizes.