Physical cosmology and exoplanets win physics Nobel
2019; American Chemical Society; Volume: 97; Issue: 40 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1021/cen-09740-scicon3
ISSN2474-7408
Autores Tópico(s)Science, Research, and Medicine
ResumoThe 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three researchers for discoveries about our universe, including matter that is nearly invisible and planets circling distant stars. Half of the roughly $1 million prize will go to James Peebles of Princeton University, and the other half jointly goes to Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva and the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. This year's prize recognizes "contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place in the cosmos," according to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which selects the winners. Paolo de Bernardis, an astrophysicist at the Sapienza University of Rome, says the prize committee "found a way to unify very distant discoveries." Peebles is a pioneer of physical cosmology, the field that studies the makeup and evolution of the universe through its large-scale
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