James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were declaredas the winners of 2019 Nobel prize in physics. They were announced as winnersat a ceremony in Stockholm.
According to Nobel Committee, they were awarded theprize for work on the evolution of the Universe and the discovery of a distantplanet around a Sun-like star in 1995.
"They tell us something essential, somethingexistential about our place in the Universe," said a member of the Committee.
While, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were awardedthe prize for finding 51 Pegasi b, a gas giant orbiting a star 50 light-yearsaway; Canada-born James Peebles was honoured for his contributions to theunderstanding of the evolution of the Universe and Earth's place in the cosmos.
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2019
The winners will share the prize money of ninemillion kronor (£738,000).
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