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Jim Peebles

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Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who was Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. He shared the prize with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jim Peebles is the 251st most popular physicist (down from 247th in 2019), the 42nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 41st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Physicist.

Jim Peebles is most famous for creating the Peebles Corporation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jim Peebles ranks 251 out of 851. Before him are Satyendra Nath Bose, Ivar Giaever, Ratko Janev, Anton Zeilinger, Kenneth G. Wilson, and C. P. Snow. After him are Benjamin Thompson, Leon M. Lederman, John L. Hall, John Archibald Wheeler, Igor Kurchatov, and Pierre-Gilles de Gennes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jim Peebles ranks 41. Before him are Bibi Andersson, Omar Bongo, Mylène Demongeot, Gherman Titov, Charles Koch, and Sylvia Earle. After him are Ryke Geerd Hamer, Giya Kancheli, Miroslav Blažević, Adnan Khashoggi, Danilo Kiš, and Elsa Martinelli.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jim Peebles ranks 42 out of 1,622. Before him are Willard Boyle (1924), Henry Taube (1915), Paul Anka (1941), William Shatner (1931), William Vickrey (1914), and James Naismith (1861). After him are Henry Clinton (1730), John Sparrow David Thompson (1845), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), Robert Mundell (1932), Maye Musk (1948), and Pamela Anderson (1967).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Jim Peebles ranks 4. Before him are Richard E. Taylor (1929), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), and Willard Boyle (1924). After him are Louis Slotin (1910), Donna Strickland (1959), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).

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