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Physics Nobel goes to exoplanet and cosmology pioneers

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who discovered the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, share award with theoretical cosmologist James Peebles.
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Cosmologist James Peebles and astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the evolution of the Universe and Earth’s place in it.

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Nature 574, 162 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02964-z

Additional reporting by Emma Stoye and Nisha Gaind.

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