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On October 8th the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos” with one half to James Peebles (Princeton University, USA) “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”, and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor (University of Geneva, Switzerland) and Didier Queloz (University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Cambridge, UK) “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”.

The work of J. Peebles predicted in a 1965 publication that the remnant radiation from the hot Big Bang would have a temperature of a few K. In his posterious research, he linked the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature, measured by Penzias and Wilson, to the matter content in the universe. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 is therefore an enormous reward to Theoretical Cosmology, one of the main research field areas of the Elusives and InvisiblePlus networks.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/uploads/2019/10/fig2_fy_en_backgroundradiation.pdf