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Nobel Prizes in Physics for Space Discoveries
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2019 - James Peebles
James Peebles was awarded the Nobel Prize for his theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology, which have had a profound impact in our understanding of the universe's history and its composition, including the cosmic microwave background radiation, dark matter, and dark energy.
1974 - Sir Martin Ryle and Antony Hewish
Ryle and Hewish were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering research in radio astrophysics: Ryle for his inventions which have led to the development of aperture synthesis, and Hewish for his role in the discovery of pulsars.
2002 - Raymond Davis Jr. and Masatoshi Koshiba
Davis Jr. and Koshiba were honored with the Nobel Prize for their detection of cosmic neutrinos, providing compelling evidence for the nuclear processes happening at the core of the Sun and stars, crucial for the field of neutrino astronomy.
2015 - Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald
Kajita and McDonald were awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass, thus challenging the Standard Model of particle physics and contributing to our understanding of the universe's matter-antimatter asymmetry.
2017 - Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne
The LIGO/Virgo collaboration leaders were awarded the Nobel Prize for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves, confirming a major prediction of Einstein's general theory of relativity and inaugurating a new field of gravitational-wave astronomy.
1983 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar received the Nobel Prize for his theoretical studies of the physical processes important to the structure and evolution of stars, including the maximum mass for white dwarf stars, known as the Chandrasekhar limit.
1978 - Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson
Penzias and Wilson were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, providing strong evidence for the Big Bang origin of the Universe.
2003 - Alexei A. Abrikosov, Vitaly L. Ginzburg, and Anthony J. Leggett
These laureates were recognized for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids, with significant implications for the understanding of low-temperature physics, phases of matter, and the behavior of condensed matter in extreme environments such as neutron stars.
2006 - John C. Mather and George F. Smoot
Mather and Smoot were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped cement the Big Bang theory as the leading cosmological model.
2011 - Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, and Adam G. Riess
The 2011 Laureates shared the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae, suggesting the existence of dark energy.
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