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Three Share in Physics Nobel

By David Kestenbaum
Published October 7, 2002 at 6:00 PM HST

Host Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's David Kestenbaum about today's Nobel Prize announcement. Raymond Davis and Riccardo Giacconi of the United States, and Japanese scientist Masatoshi Koshiba, win the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics. This year's prize is for astrophysics research.

Copyright 2002 NPR
David Kestenbaum
David Kestenbaum is a correspondent for NPR, covering science, energy issues and, most recently, the global economy for NPR's multimedia project Planet Money. David has been a science correspondent for NPR since 1999. He came to journalism the usual way — by getting a Ph.D. in physics first.
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