Who did Peebles share the 2019 Nobel prize with?
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne
Richard Feynman and Paul Dirac
Answer
Peebles shared the 2019 Nobel prize in Physics with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their work on exoplanets. In 1995, Mayor and Queloz discovered the first exoplanet, a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun. Peebles' work in cosmology helped to lay the foundation for the understanding of exoplanets.
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