# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-peebles
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:29:45.695Z

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name: "Jim Peebles"
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description: "Phillip James Edwin Peebles is a Canadian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and theoretical cosmologist who was Albert Einstein Professor in Science, emeritus, at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading theoretical cosmologists in the period since 1970, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, the cosmic microwave background, and structure formation."
tagline: "Canadian-American astronomer & Nobel Laureate in Physics"
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birthDate: "1935-04-25"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump