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Jim Peebles

1935 - Today

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Phillip James Edwin Peebles (born April 25, 1935) is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who was 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. Peebles was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jim Peebles has received more than 459,067 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Jim Peebles is the 247th most popular physicist (down from 233rd in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Canada (up from 43rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Physicist.

Jim Peebles is most famous for creating the Peebles Corporation.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Jim Peebles ranks 247 out of 851Before him are Valentin Ceaușescu, Bertram Brockhouse, Alexey Ekimov, Patrick Blackett, Klaus Hasselmann, and John Archibald Wheeler. After him are Gérard Mourou, Georg Bednorz, Georg von Békésy, Ivar Giaever, Claude-Louis Navier, and Brian Josephson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jim Peebles ranks 43Before him are Adnan Khashoggi, Ryke Geerd Hamer, Danilo Kiš, Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Giya Kancheli. After him are Artur Rasizade, Mirella Freni, Ei-ichi Negishi, Jack Kemp, Harvey J. Alter, and Harrison Schmitt.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Jim Peebles ranks 41 out of 1,622Before him are Dan Aykroyd (1952), René Angélil (1942), Arthur B. McDonald (1943), Bertram Brockhouse (1918), Oswald Avery (1877), and Drake (1986). After him are Howard Shore (1946), Henry Mintzberg (1939), John Kenneth Galbraith (1908), Mary Pickford (1892), Joni Mitchell (1943), and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands (1943).

Among PHYSICISTS In Canada

Among physicists born in Canada, Jim Peebles ranks 4Before him are Willard Boyle (1924), Richard E. Taylor (1929), and Bertram Brockhouse (1918). After him are Donna Strickland (1959), Louis Slotin (1910), Arthur Jeffrey Dempster (1886), Harriet Brooks (1876), Paul Corkum (1943), and Sylvia Fedoruk (1927).