Discoveries that gave a fresh look at the Universe
Nobel Prize in Physics for 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/visn2019.12.020Abstract
On October 8, the Nobel Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the decision to award the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019. Half of the award went to Canadian-American scientist James Peebles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology.” The second half of the award was shared by Swiss astrophysicists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” This article is about the first, so to speak, “theoretical” part of the award.
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