Nobel laureate Didier Queloz visits the IAC and outlines the ‘next frontier’ in the search for exoplanets - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias • IAC

Didier Queloz
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Didier Patrick Queloz (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ma
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Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope - Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias • IAC
Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 goes to Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz - Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)