Michel Mayor

Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor 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... Wikipedia

• Born:  Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor, January 12, 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Age:  84 years
• Fields:  Astrophysics
• Institutions:  University of Geneva
• Education:  University of Lausanne (MS), University of Geneva (PhD)
• Thesis:  "The kinematical properties of stars in the solar vicinity: possible relation with the galactic spiral structure" (1971)
• Doctoral students:  Didier Queloz
• Known for:  Discovered first planet orbiting around a normal star, 51 Pegasi
• Notable awards:  Prix Jules Janssen (1998), Albert Einstein Medal(2004), Shaw Prize (2005), Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2015), Wolf Prize (2017), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)
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