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Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl majɔʁ]; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva .
Michel Mayor. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019. Born: 12 January 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. Prize motivation: “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star” Prize share: 1/4. Michel Mayor was born in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Michel Mayor. Professeur honoraire / Emeritus Professor. S1414. +41 22 379 24 80.
Biographical. Biography* My family, childhood and education. I was born in 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland, a small town along Lake Leman where I started elementary school. My father was a police commissioner with positions in different cities.
May 10, 2024 · 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.
Oct 8, 2019 · Cosmologist James Peebles and astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries about the evolution of the Universe and Earth’s place in it.
Telephone interview with Michel Mayor following the announcement of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, 8 October 2019. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Chief Scientific Officer of Nobel Media. Michel Mayor was in the midst of a lecture tour in Spain when he received the news of his Prize.
Dr. Michel Mayor, the 2015 Kyoto Prize laureate in Basic Sciences was announced as a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Discovery of Extrasolar Planet on October 8, 2019. Congratulations!
Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, in January 1942. The young Michel loves the sciences, saying he was inspired by his biology teacher at his college in Aigle.
Since 2007, Michel Mayor is Emeritus Professor at Geneva University. He has been jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Professor James Peebles and Professor Didier Queloz.
