A Nobel Laureate will inaugurate the World Copernican Congress. The ceremonial event is scheduled to take place in the auditorium of Nicolaus Copernicus University on Sunday 19 February – the 550th anniversary of Nicolaus Copernicus’ birth.

Toruń will host the rectors of the universities that are co-organising the event, as well as the Minister of Education and Science. During the inauguration of the Congress, a lecture will be given by Prof Phillip James Edwin Peebles, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2019.

Prof Peebles is a Canadian-American physicist, cosmologist, astrophysicist and astronomer. He is one of the pioneers of the theory of cosmic structure formation. He received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Yale, Cambridge and Oxford Universities and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, among others. In 2019, together with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discoveries in physical cosmology.

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