Michel Mayor
Genève, Suisse
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Florian Guillaume: “He turned the question of whether we are alone into something we can measure.”
Swiss astrophysicist at the University of Geneva who in 1995 co-discovered with Didier Queloz the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star: 51 Pegasi b. That discovery, using the radial velocity technique Mayor helped develop, opened a new era in astronomy and led to the confirmed detection of 5,500+ exoplanets. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019. Mayor transformed the question 'Are we alone?' from philosophy into empirical science, demonstrating that planetary systems are a universal fe
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