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Article: Scientist honored for role in shaping Big Bang theory.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 20, 2000
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PRINCETON, N.J. _ Cosmologist Jim Peebles is more bemused than annoyed by the construction that has been going on for months under his window. The view is dismal: a ring of dark brown buildings imprisoning a puny courtyard strewn with planks, pipes, hoses, and other assorted debris.
They're going to build some sort of decorative stuff, planters or something, but he isn't counting on any vast improvement. For Peebles, the fluorescent-lit surroundings at Princeton University's Jadwin Hall are perfectly adequate for working out the origin and ultimate fate of the universe.
It even kind of fits with a theme in current cosmology _ that we live in a universe ...