While most were focused on a screeching match that styled itself as a debate, a Canadian professor won a Nobel Prize for physics:
Canadian-born scientist James Peebles is one of three researchers who have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their contributions to the understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth's place within it.
Peebles, born in the Winnipeg neighbourhood of St. Boniface, is a physics professor at Princeton University in New Jersey. He won the award "for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology."
In announcing the award in Sweden on Tuesday, the Nobel committee said Peebles' work laid a foundation for the transformation of cosmology over the last 50 years and is the basis of our contemporary ideas about the universe "from the Big Bang to the present day."
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