Cosmology trio win Nobel Physics Prize Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz win the Nobel Physics Prize for research that increases the understanding of our place in the Universe. Peebles won one-half of the prize "for theoretical discoveries that have contributed to our understanding of how the Universe evolved after the Big Bang," professor Goran Hansson, secretary general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, told a press conference. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES