The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
Awarded on: 2019-10-08
"for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"
Affiliations:
- University of Geneva – Geneva, Switzerland
Michel Mayor
Born: 1942-01-12 in Lausanne, Switzerland
Gender: male
Field: Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics
Biography
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 researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize and the 2015 Kyoto Prize.