Trio win 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for transforming 'our ideas about the cosmos'

Three scientists have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics for their contribution to the understanding of the evolution of the universe and "Earth's place in the cosmos"

The Nobel Prize laureates for Physics 2018 are announced at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Sweden. Source: AP

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz on Tuesday won the Nobel Physics Prize for research increasing our understanding of our place in the universe, the jury said.

Mr Peebles won one-half of the prize "for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang," professor Goran Hansson, secretary-general of Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a press conference.

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