https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/nobel_prize_physics/

Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of how the early universe evolved after the Big Bang and finding the first exoplanet orbiting a faraway star.

One half of the prize, a sweet 4.5 million Swedish kroner - about $492,800 or £368,400 - goes to James Peebles, 84, a Canadian-born retired cosmology professor from Princeton University. Peebles was instrumental in producing detailed analytical models describing the universe unfolding fractions of a second after it came to be, all the way until the present, and the future. Along the way, scientists uncovered new fundamental principles.