A U.S. cosmologist and two Swiss astronomers shared the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday, for insights into the evolution of the universe and the discovery that other worlds circle stars far from our own solar system. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which chooses the Nobel laureates, awarded one half of this year’s physics prize to James Peebles at Princeton University “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” and the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz at the University of Geneva “for the...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 08, 2019 10:01 UTC