Michel Mayor

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Science and the scientist

Oct 10, 2019 1 min read

Op-eds Science 51 Pegasi b Azeen Ghorayshi Didier Queloz Geoff Marcy John B Goodenough lithium-ion batteries Michel Mayor Nobel Prize for Chemistry Nobel Prize for physics sexual harassment

Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor won the 2019 Nobel Prize for physics for discovering a famous exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) in 1995. Their claim was first verified by a top astronomer at the time named Geoff…

A revolutionary exoplanet

Oct 10, 2019 4 min read

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In 1992, Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail became the first astronomers to publicly announce that they had discovered the first planets outside the Solar System, orbiting the dense core of a dead st…