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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 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.
Michel Mayor. Professeur honoraire / Emeritus Professor. S1414 +41 22 379 24 80 E-mail Website. Biography. Corps enseignant / Faculty members.
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.
Learn about the life and career of Michel Mayor, the Swiss astronomer who discovered the first extrasolar planet in 1995 with Didier Queloz. Read about his education, research, family, hobbies and achievements in this comprehensive biographical profile.
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.
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.
