Canadian - American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 shared with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun - like star
American astrophysician, 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
Japanese physician. In 2012 he along with John Gurdon were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery that mature cells can be converted to stem cells