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Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl majɔʁ]; born 12 January 1942) [2] is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. [3] He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva.
Michel Mayor. Professeur honoraire / Emeritus Professor. S1414. +41 22 379 24 80. E-mail. Website.
Michel Mayor is a Swiss astronomer who discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star in 1995. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 with Didier Queloz for this groundbreaking discovery.
Oct 8, 2019 · Michel Mayor, a Swiss astronomer, and his student Didier Queloz shared the prize with James Peebles, a cosmologist, for their contributions to the evolution of the Universe. Mayor and Queloz found the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star in 1995, launching a new field of research.
- Elizabeth Gibney, Davide Castelvecchi
- 2019
Michel Mayor (born 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland) is a Swiss astronomer who was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery with Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz of the first known extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star.
Michel Mayor delivered his Nobel Lecture on Sunday 8 December 2019, at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University. He was introduced by Professor Mats Larsson, Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics. Read the Nobel Lecture. Pdf 8,4 MB.