https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosmology-and-exoplanets-win-2019-nobel-prize-in-physics1/ > Discoveries on the grandest scale in the cosmos as well as findings a bit closer to home share this year’s Nobel Prize in physics. Cosmologist James Peebles of Princeton University won half the award for helping to build our picture of how the universe formed and evolved, and the other half went to Michel Mayor of the University of Geneva and Didier Queloz of the University of Cambridge and Geneva University, for finding 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. > Together, the winners “have painted a picture of a universe far stranger and more wonderful than we ever could have imagined,” said Nobel committee member Ulf Danielsson, a physicist at Uppsala University in Sweden. “Our view of our place in our universe will never be the same again.”