Three eminent cosmologists are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019. The prize goes "half to James Peebles for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology and the other half jointly with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for the discovery of an exoplanet in orbit around a solar-type star, "said Göran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
"This year's laureates have transformed our ideas about the cosmos," the Academy noted.
The theoretical framework developed over twenty years by the American James Peebles on the cosmos and its billions of galaxies constitutes "the foundations of our modern understanding of the history of the universe," says the Academy.
The Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the Geneva Observatory, are rewarded for having discovered in 1995 the first exoplanet in orbit around a star comparable to our Sun - a planet located outside our solar system - called 51 Pegasi .
The Nobel Prize in Physics is the second prize of the Nobel season, which will continue Wednesday with the prize for chemistry.
With AFP and Reuters