Name: Cosmology - James Peebles
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Description: Phillip James Edwin Peebles CC OM FRS is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Emeritus, at Princeton U

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Cosmology - James Peebles

Phillip James Edwin Peebles CC OM FRS is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who is currently the 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.

Awards
Fellow of the American Physical Society (1964)
Eddington Medal (1981)
Heineman Prize (1982)
Fellow of the Royal Society (1982)
Henry Norris Russell Lectureship (1993)
Bruce Medal (1995)
Oskar Klein Medal (1997)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1998)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2000), with Allan Sandage
Harvey Prize (2001)
Shaw Prize (2004)
Member of the American Philosophical Society (2004)
Crafoord Prize with James E. Gunn and Martin Rees (2005)
Hitchcock Professorship (2006)
Dirac Medal (2013)
Member of the Order of Manitoba (2017)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)
Elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020.