Physics Nobel spotlights scientists who discovered exoplanets and the recipe for the universe
(World News Science)

An artist`s rendering of the 51 Pegasi B exoplanet migrating toward its sun. Fifty percent larger than Jupiter, it was first discovered by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz in 1995. (NASA/) Early Tuesday morning, the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics went to American cosmologist Jim Peebles for his `theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,` and to Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an `exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.` The prize united two distinct fields of research-cosmology and astronomy-on the basis of the shared guiding principle of better understanding the cosmos, according to the Nobel committee. Peebles´ work in cosmology has helped define our...