{"id":97267,"date":"2019-10-10T00:02:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/cern-congratulates-2019-physics-nobel-prize-winners"},"modified":"2019-10-10T00:02:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T07:02:44","slug":"cern-congratulates-2019-physics-nobel-prize-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/cern-congratulates-2019-physics-nobel-prize-winners","title":{"rendered":"CERN congratulates 2019 physics Nobel Prize winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cern-congratulates-2019-physics-nobel-prize-winners2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CERN congratulates James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/physics\/2019\/press-release\/\">award of the Nobel Prize in physics<\/a> \u201cfor contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth\u2019s place in the cosmos\u201d. Peebles receives the prize \u201cfor theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology\u201d and Mayor and Queloz are recognised \u201cfor the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cosmology studies the universe\u2019s origin, structure and ultimate fate. Peebles\u2019 theoretical framework of cosmology, developed since the mid-1960s, is the foundation of our knowledge of the cosmos today. Thanks to his seminal theoretical work, physicists now have a model that can describe the universe from its earliest moments to the present day, and into the distant future.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mayor and Queloz have explored our cosmic neighbourhood and announced in 1995 the first discovery of an exoplanet \u2013 a planet outside our Solar System \u2013 orbiting a solar-type star in the Milky Way. The discovery of this exoplanet, dubbed 51 Pegasi b, was a milestone in astronomy and has since led to the discovery of more than 4000 exoplanets in our galaxy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CERN congratulates James Peebles, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on the award of the Nobel Prize in physics \u201cfor contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth\u2019s place in the cosmos\u201d. Peebles receives the prize \u201cfor theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology\u201d and Mayor and Queloz are recognised \u201cfor the discovery of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}