Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly to James Peebles from Princeton University, USA, and Michel Mayor from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Didier Queloz, also from the University of Geneva and University of Cambridge, UK, “ for cont...
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| Published in: | Resonance 2019-12, Vol.24 (12), p.1397-1411 |
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| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences jointly to James Peebles from Princeton University, USA, and Michel Mayor from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Didier Queloz, also from the University of Geneva and University of Cambridge, UK, “
for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the Universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos
”. One half of the Prize was awarded to James Peebles for “
theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology
” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for “
the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
”. These are related to some of the most fundamental questions, namely the structure, constitution and evolution of the Universe and the formation of planets and the origin of life itself. |
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| ISSN: | 0971-8044 0973-712X |