Dr. Phillip James Edwin Peebles (b. 1935) is a native of Winnipeg and a graduate of the University of Manitoba (B.Sc. in physics, 1958). As a Princeton theoretical cosmologist he played a central role in the understanding of the evolution and structure of the universe. His studies of the evolution of matter in the earliest moments of the universe were critical in the establishment of the Big Bang theory as a widely accepted hypothesis. Discovered by Gehrels, T., van Houten, C.J. and van Houten-Groeneveld, I.

 

Dr. Peebles was named an Honorary Member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada on 2002-01-26.

 

On 2019-10-08, it was announced that Dr Peebles was awarded a share of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

 

Orbit type: Main Belt

 

Reference: MPC 51189