Jim Peebles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jim Peebles

Canadian-American astronomer

Date of Birth: 25-Apr-1935

Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Profession: astronomer, physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher

Nationality: Canada, United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor Emeritus of Science 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.
In his award presentation, Peebles noted that he does not prefer the term "Big Bang Theory", since "it connotes the notion of an event and a position, both of which are quite wrong." While much of his work relates to the development of the universe from its first few seconds, he is more skeptical about what we can know about the very beginning, and stated, "It's very unfortunate that one thinks of the beginning whereas in fact, we have no good theory of such a thing as the beginning."Peebles has described himself as a convinced agnostic.