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Didier Queloz | |
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 Queloz in 2017 | |
| Born | 23 February 1966 Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Education | University of Geneva (MS, DEA, PhD) |
| Known for | First person to find a planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside of our solar system |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics (2017) Nobel Prize in Physics (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Recherches liées à la spectroscopie par corrélation croisée numérique; (INTER-TACOS: guide de l'utilisateur) (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Mayor |
Didier Patrick Queloz FRS (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,[1] where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva.[2] Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.[3] For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles.[4][5] In 2021, he was announced as the founding director of the Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.[6]
- ^ Cavendish Astrophysics: Professor Didier Queloz www.astro.phy.cam.ac.uk, accessed 3 February 2020
- ^ Cambridge Press Release: Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet www.cam.ac.uk, accessed 3 February 2020
- ^ Mayor, Michel; Queloz, Didier (November 1995). "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star". Nature. 378 (6555): 355–59. Bibcode:1995Natur.378..355M. doi:10.1038/378355a0. S2CID 4339201.
- ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019". Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
NYT-20191008was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ swissinfo.ch/ilj, Keystone-SDA/ETH Zurich/SWI. "Nobel winner Queloz to head new research centre in Zurich". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 21 May 2021.
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