Which country was Jim Peebles originally from?
Canada
United States
United Kingdom
New Zealand
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Jim Peebles was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada on April 29, 1935. He is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his work on the early universe. He is a professor emeritus of physics at Princeton University and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
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