Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz

Nobel Week traditionally continues with the announcement of physics award. Winners this year become Canadian physicist Jim Peebles (1/2), Swiss astrophysicist Michel Mayor, and Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz (each 1/4).  

The award was given for their contribution to understanding the evolution of space and the place of the Earth in space.  

Peebles worked on the Big Bang theory and the composition of space, and Mayor and his doctoral student, Queloz, discovered the first exoplanet in our Milky Way galaxy.

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