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I'm Steve Mursky.

This year's Nobel laureates in physics

had painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined.

Theoretical physicist Ulf Danielson from Uppsala University.

Here's the announcement this morning from Jorn Hansen of the Nobel Assembly at the Carolinska Institute. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics with one half

to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, and the other have jointly to

Michel Mayor and Dije Kilo for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar type star.

James Peebles was born in 1935 in Canada in Manitoba,

and he has had his career largely at Princeton University where he is today

the Albert Einstein professor of science.

Michelle Maior was born in 1942 in Lossan in Switzerland, he is a Meredith professor of astronomy

at the University of Geneva, University of Shennave in Switzerland.

Didier Kilo, finally, was born in 1966,

and is also from Switzerland.

He's currently a professor of astrophysics, both at the University of Geneva and at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Back to Ulf Danielson.

At the time of its discovery in the mid-1960s, James Peebles realized the importance of cosmic radiation.

Through his work and new ways to observe and measure our universe,

cosmology evolved into science of precision based on the mathematical foundation.

Michel Maior and Didi Kelow, they awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of a planet in

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