Nobel Prize in Physics Honors Scientists Who Transformed Our Ideas About the Cosmos.

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▼ The Nobel Prize in physics has been  awarded to three scientists for unraveling the structure and history of the universe and for changing our perspective of Earth's place in it.
Canadian-American James Peebles of Princeton University received one-half of the Nobel "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology," the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said this morning. The other half will be shared by Swiss scientists, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star," the Academy said. Mayor is a professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and Queloz is at both the University of Geneva and the University of Cambridge in the U.K.
Peebles was key in transforming the field of cosmology— the study of the universe's origin and evolution — from one of speculation to actual science, according to (▪ ▪ ▪)

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