The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-08
"for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology"
Affiliations:
- Princeton University – Princeton, NJ, USA
James Peebles
Born: 1935-04-25 in Winnipeg, Canada
Gender: male
Field: Canadian-American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Biography
Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who was Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.