James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz ‘have painted a picture of our universe far stranger and more wonderful than we could ever have imagined,’ committee member Ulf Danielsson said
Canadian-American scientist James Peebles speaks to well-wishers after he won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics along with two others, at his home in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. October 8, 2019. Picture: REUTERS / EDUARDO MUNOZ
“This year’s Nobel laureates have painted a picture of our universe far stranger and more wonderful than we could ever have imagined,” Ulf Danielsson, a professor and member of the Nobel Committee for Physics, told reporters as the prize was announced. The pair announced the first discovery of a planet outside our own solar system, a so-called “exoplanet”, in 1995.
Since their discovery, more than 4,000 exoplanets have been found in the Milky Way, many of them nothing like our own world. At a news conference in London, Queloz said the focus of research had now shifted from finding more planets to finding out more about them — about their atmosphere, chemistry and formation. Queloz also fielded inevitable questions about the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
“The awards and prizes, well, they are charming and very much appreciated, but … you should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That’s what I did,” he told reporters by telephone after the award announcement.
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