Winnipeg-born James Peebles among winners for Nobel Prize in physics

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Goran K Hansson, centre, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and academy members Mats Larsson, left, and Ulf Danielsson, announce the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, during news conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday Oct. 8, 2019.

He shares one half of this year’s physics prize, valued at about $1.5-million. The other half is divided between Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, two Swiss researchers who were among the first to discover planets beyond our solar system.Born and raised in Winnipeg, Dr. Peebles received his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba and then went on to graduate work at Princeton starting in 1958.

“It was never a plan of great discovery,” Dr. Peebles said over the phone during a news conference after this year’s physics prize was announced. “These things just happen.” While Dr. Peebles did his Nobel-winning working in the United States, he has maintained his ties to Canada. A research chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ont., is named after him.

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