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CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER:
Princeton University's 2019
Nobel Laureate in Physics,
Professor James Peebles.
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JAMES PEEBLES: The Nobel
Prize is just spectacularly
influential around the world.
It makes many people aware
of the excitement of science.
I think my prime legacy is
my students, my books --
I have just finished a large
book on how we got to where we
are in cosmology --
and, at the same time,
my journal, my memoirs.
CHRISTOPHER L. EISGRUBER:
While searching the cosmos,
Jim never lost focus on what
was right in front of him,
his students.
JAMES PEEBLES: Princeton
selects excellent people,
and it's just almost a
privilege, I might say,
to talk to them.
In addition to that,
I love physics.
And so what could be
better than to talk physics
to bright young students?
A lecturer learns as
well as the students do.
I have been asked, what
is my major contribution?
And, you know, it's
rather like asking me,
which of your children
is your favorite?
But if you want one, I
think it is the introduction
of cold dark matter.
You recall the standard
and very well-tested theory
of the structure and
evolution of the universe,
well cross-checked, a
tight story, if we have
that hypothetical dark matter.
There's another
Nobel Prize waiting
to detect that dark matter.
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