The Nobel Prize for the year 2019 in the field of Physics has been announced. This time three scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for their contribution to physics.

James Peebles is jointly awarded for placing new theories on cosmology, while Michel Mayer and Didier Queloz find another planet beyond the solar system.

James Peebles is an American citizen of Canadian descent. The work he has done on Big Bang, Dark Matter and Dark Energy is considered to be the basis of modern cosmology.

Michel and Didier discovered the planet 51 Pegasi B. This massive planet made of gas is orbiting a star 50 years away from Earth.

This year James will receive half of the prize money, while the other half will be split half-way between Mayer and Didier.

'The Nobel Prize' has tweeted that Nobel was announced in Physics by Goran K. Hanson, General Secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science.

After the award was announced, James Peebles taught science students that my advice to newcomers coming into the world of science is that they should adopt it while they love science.

James was born in 1935 in Winnipeg, Canada. Philip James Edwin Peebles OM FRS is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer and theoretical cosmologist, currently Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science at Princeton University.

Michel Mayer was born in 1942 in Switzerland. He is a professor at the University of Geneva. Didier Queloz was born in 1966. He is a professor at the University of Cambridge.

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