Tag: astronomers

• Thursday, October 10th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Nobel Physics Prize for a Canadian cosmologist and two Swiss astronomers

  

  Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the Nobel Physics Prize for research increasing our understanding of our place in the universe, the jury said.

• Friday, May 31st 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  The centennial anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse, a feat of Brazilian and British astronomers

  

  May 29th marked the one hundred year anniversary of the Sobral Eclipse. Six minutes of darkness a century ago put Brazil and the UK at the heart of what was possibly one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 20th century.