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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."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"25 April 1935","date":"1935-04-25"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728331#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Winnipeg","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2135"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728331#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Canada","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16"},{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728331#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"astronomer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11063"},{"text":"astrophysicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q752129"},{"text":"university teacher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272"},{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728331#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Princeton University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21578"},{"text":"University of Manitoba","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1191833"},{"text":"Glenlawn Collegiate","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5568575"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q728331#P69"}},{"key":"awards","label":"Awards","values":[{"text":"Harvey Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1587906","date":"2001"},{"text":"Gruber Prize in Cosmology","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1483071","date":"2000"},{"text":"Petrie Prize Lecture","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2080569","date":"1989"},{"text":"Oskar Klein Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1778662","date":"1997"},{"text":"Henry Norris Russell Lectureship","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1607116","date":"1993"},{"text":"Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q753072","date":"1998"},{"text":"Eddington Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q936106","date":"1981"},{"text":"Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q619983","date":"1982"},{"text":"Bruce Medal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330957","date":"1995"},{"text":"Dr. Tomalla Prize","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2440319","date":"2003"},{"text":"Karl G. 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