When was Jim Peebles born?

Jim Peebles was born on 25 April 1935 in Winnipeg.

Where did Jim Peebles study?

Jim Peebles was educated at Princeton University, University of Manitoba, Glenlawn Collegiate.

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Jim Peebles

Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics

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Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who gained the Albert Einstein Professorship in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation.

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Born: 25 April 1935 wd
Place of birth: Winnipeg wd
Citizenship: Canada, United States wd
Occupation: astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher, physicist wd
Education: Princeton University, University of Manitoba, Glenlawn Collegiate wd

Awards wd

Harvey Prize (2001)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2000)
Petrie Prize Lecture (1989)
Oskar Klein Medal (1997)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1993)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1998)
Eddington Medal (1981)
Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics (1982)
Bruce Medal (1995)
Dr. Tomalla Prize (2003)
Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
ICTP Dirac Medal (2013)
The Shaw Prize in Astronomy (2004)
Crafoord Prize in Astronomy (2005)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)

About

Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. He shared the prize with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. While much of his work relates to the development of the universe from its first few seconds, he is more skeptical about what we can know about the very beginning, and stated, "It's very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning."

Peebles has described himself as a convinced agnostic.

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When was Jim Peebles born?: Jim Peebles was born on 25 April 1935 in Winnipeg.
Where did Jim Peebles study?: Jim Peebles was educated at Princeton University, University of Manitoba, Glenlawn Collegiate.

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