Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy

Record ID: 1435730

  • Title: Peebles, Mayor, Queloz win Nobel physics prize for discoveries in astronomy
  • Date: 8th October 2019
  • Summary: PHOTOGRAPHS OF WINNERS JAMES PEEBLES, MICHEL MAYOR, DIDIER QUELOZ ON SCREEN
  • Embargoed: 22nd October 2019 11:07
  • Keywords: Nobel Prize physics Nobel physics prize Nobel winner James Peebles Michel Mayor Didier Queloz
  • Location: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • City: STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
  • Country: Sweden
  • Topics: Science
  • Reuters ID: LVA002B08L9ON
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    Scientists James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking work in astronomy, the award-giving body said on Tuesday (October 8).
    Peebles was awarded half the prize for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, while Mayor and Queloz shared the other half for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.
    On awarding the 9 million Swedish crowns ($910,000), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences this year's Laureates have transformed the world's ideas about the cosmos.
    (Production: Lucy Marks)
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