Who shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with him?
Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose
Alan Guth and Andrei Linde
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz
Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman
Answer
Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were the other winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with James Peebles. They shared the prize for their discovery of an extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star. This was the first confirmed discovery of a planet outside our solar system, and it led to the development of the field of exoplanetology.
The Stellar Odyssey: Exploring the Universe of Jim Peebles
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