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Nobel in Physics for Exoplanets and Cosmology

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology” and to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science.

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I'm Steve Merski.

0:38.5

This year's Nobel laureates in physics

0:42.0

had painted the picture of a universe far stranger

0:46.5

and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined.

0:51.2

Theoretical physicist Ulf Danielson from Uppsala University. Here's the announcement this morning from

0:56.9

Jordan Hansen of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

1:02.7

has today decided to award the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with one half to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical

1:13.6

cosmology, and the other half, jointly to Michel Major and Didier Kilo, for the discovery of

1:21.6

an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. James Peebles was born in 1935 in Canada, in Manitoba.

1:34.3

And he has had his career largely at Princeton University,

1:39.3

where he is today the Albert Einstein professor of science.

1:43.3

Michel Major was born in 1942 in Los Angeles in Switzerland.

1:48.0

He is a merit professor of astronomy at the University of Geneva,

1:53.0

University of Geneva in Switzerland.

1:55.0

Didier Keelot finally was born in 1966 and is also from Switzerland.

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