A Japanese, Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Physics

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A Japanese, Two Americans Win Nobel Prize in Physics

A Japanese and two American scientists shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday.

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A Japanese and two American scientists shared this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their "pioneering contributions to astrophysics," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Tuesday.

Masatoshi Koshiba of Japan and Raymond Davis Jr. of the United States share one half of the prize worth some 1.07 million US dollars for "their pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos," the academy said in a press release.

The other half of the prize goes to another American Riccardo Giacconi for his contributions to astrophysics, "which have led tothe discovery of cosmic X-ray sources," it added.

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