Michel Mayor
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Why Florian Guillaume recommends Michel Mayor
“He turned the question of whether we are alone into something we can measure.”
Swiss astrophysicist at the University of Geneva who in 1995 co-discovered with Didier Queloz the first exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star: 51 Pegasi b. That discovery, using the radial velocity technique Mayor helped develop, opened a new era in astronomy and led to the confirmed detection of 5,500+ exoplanets. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019. Mayor transformed the question 'Are we alone?' from philosophy into empirical science, demonstrating that planetary systems are a universal fe
- Place
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Recommended by
- Florian Guillaume
- Collections
- Antikythera · Living Legends · Arts & Culture
