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Detailed explanation-1: -This year’s Laureates have transformed our ideas about the cosmos. While James Peebles’ theoretical discoveries contributed to our understanding of how the universe evolved after the Big Bang, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz explored our cosmic neighbourhoods on the hunt for unknown planets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Announcement. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019 to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter Handke was awarded the 2019 Nobel prize in literature for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience. The first man to win Nobel Prize for Literature was Sully Prudhomme.