Canadian cosmologist wins 2019 Nobel prize for physics Posted: October 8, 2019

Winnipeg-born James Peebles has won 50% of the 2019 Nobel prize in physics. The 84-year-old researcher studies physical cosmology — a field concerned with the dynamics of the universe. He shares the award with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva. Peebles has been a professor at Princeton University since 1972, but he has always maintained his Canadian citizenship. Peebles won the prize for his work on the cosmic background radiation and more importantly for his theory that the universe is mostly made up of dark matter and dark energy, things we can neither see nor detect, yet they must be there to account for everything that is observable in the universe. Read more in the Globe and Mail.