COSMS Institute & Morehead Planetarium Science Center

Presented by UNC Faculty: Laura Mersini-Houghton, Adrienne Erickcek, Nick Law

“Celebrating the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize: Cosmology and Exoplanets”

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 was awarded “for contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos” with one half to James Peebeles “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology,” the other half jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.”