Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor an...
STOCKHOLM - Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for shedding light on the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns.
Peebles, of Princeton University in the United States, was awarded half the 9-million-Swedish-crown prize while Mayor and Queloz, from the University of Geneva in Switzerland, shared the other half. “While James Peebles’ theoretical discoveries contributed to our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz explored our cosmic neighborhoods in the hunt for unknown planets. Their discoveries have forever changed our conceptions of the world.”
Among the Nobels, physics has often taken center stage with winners featuring some of the greatest names in science like Albert Einstein, Marie Curie and Niels Bohr, as well as ground-breaking inventors such as radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi.
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