Didier Queloz
Didier Queloz | |
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Queloz in 2017 | |
| Born | 23 February 1966 Switzerland |
| Education | University of Geneva (MS, DEA, PhD) |
| Known for | First person to find a planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside of the Solar System |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics (2017) Nobel Prize in Physics (2019) National Order of the Legion of Honour (2022) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astronomy |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Recherches liées à la spectroscopie par corrélation croisée numérique; (INTER-TACOS: guide de l'utilisateur) (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Michel Mayor |
Didier Patrick Queloz FRS (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor of physics at ETH Zurich. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles. In 2022, he is the founding director of the Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.