The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 @NobelPrize #NobelPrize

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Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 – NobelPrize.org.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

“for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”

with one half to

James Peebles
Princeton University, USA

“for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”

and the other half jointly to

Michel Mayor
University of Geneva, Switzerland

and

Didier Queloz
University of Geneva, Switzerland
University of Cambridge, UK

“for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”

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