The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos”
with one half to
James Peebles Princeton University, USA
“for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”
and the other half jointly to
Michel Mayor University of Geneva, Switzerland
and
Didier Queloz, University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Cambridge
“for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”
New perspectives on our place in the universe
Fysikpristagare från Uppsala
Manne Siegbahn fick nobelpriset i fysik 1924 för sina insatser inom röntgenspektroskopi
Kai Siegbahn fick nobelpriset i fysik 1981 ”för sitt bidrag till utvecklingen av den högupplösande elektronspektroskopien”.
Andra svenska fysikpristagare
Gustaf Dahlén 1912
Hannes Alfvén 1970
