Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz
Queloz in 2017
Born (1966-02-23) 23 February 1966 (age 58)
Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
EducationUniversity of Geneva (MS, DEA, PhD)
Known forFirst person to find a planet orbiting a Sun-like star outside of our solar system
AwardsWolf Prize in Physics (2017)
Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Institutions
ThesisRecherches liées à la spectroscopie par corrélation croisée numérique; (INTER-TACOS: guide de l'utilisateur) (1995)
Doctoral advisorMichel 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,[1] where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva.[2] Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.[3] For this discovery, he shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics with Mayor and Jim Peebles.[4][5] In 2021, he was announced as the founding director of the Center for the Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich.[6]

  1. ^ Cavendish Astrophysics: Professor Didier Queloz www.astro.phy.cam.ac.uk, accessed 3 February 2020
  2. ^ Cambridge Press Release: Professor Didier Queloz wins 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for first discovery of an exoplanet www.cam.ac.uk, accessed 3 February 2020
  3. ^ Mayor, Michel; Queloz, Didier (November 1995). "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star". Nature. 378 (6555): 355–59. Bibcode:1995Natur.378..355M. doi:10.1038/378355a0. S2CID 4339201.
  4. ^ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019". Nobel Media AB. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYT-20191008 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ swissinfo.ch/ilj, Keystone-SDA/ETH Zurich/SWI. "Nobel winner Queloz to head new research centre in Zurich". SWI swissinfo.ch. Retrieved 21 May 2021.