Michel Mayor

Prize: Nobel Prize in Physics — 2019
for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
Together with: Didier Queloz, Jim Peebles

occupation: astronomer
university teacher
researcher
physicist
astrophysicist
field of work: astrophysics
educated at: University of Geneva
University of Lausanne
employer: University of Geneva
Observatory of Geneva
start time: 1984
end time: 2007
Observatory of Geneva
start time: 1998
end time: 2004
position held: director
start time: 1998
end time: 2004
member of: French Academy of Sciences
start time: 4/29/2002
National Academy of Sciences
start time: 2010
Academy of Sciences of Turin
start time: 5/25/2021
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
start time: 2010
International Astronomical Union
start time: 1973
European Academy of Sciences
start time: 2003
doctoral student: Didier Queloz
Xavier Bonfils

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