Michel Mayor
Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist. He was professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He retired in 2007, but works as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics,[1] the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize,[2] and the winner of the 2015 Kyoto Prize.
Michel G.E. Mayor | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Swiss |
Alma mater | Lausanne University (M.S., 1966) Geneva University (Ph.D, 1971) |
Known for | Discovered first planet orbiting around a normal star, 51 Pegasi |
Awards | Prix Jules Janssen (1998) Shaw Prize (2005) Wolf Prize (2017) Nobel Prize in Physics (2019) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astrophysics |
Institutions | University of Geneva |
Thesis | "The kinematical properties of stars in the solar vicinity: possible relation with the galactic spiral structure." |
Together with Didier Queloz in 1995 he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.[3] Because of this, Mayor and Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star".[4]
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