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Jim Peebles

Scientist · born April 25, 1935

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Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who gained the Albert Einstein Professorship in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~46Received the Eddington Medal1981
  2. ~60Received the Bruce Medal1995
  3. ~63Received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society1998
  4. ~84Received the Nobel Prize in Physics2019

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