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Michel Mayor is a Swiss astronomer who built precise spectrographs and led the survey that discovered 51 Pegasi b with doctoral student Didier Queloz in 1995.

They shared half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first confirmed exoplanet around a solar-type star. Mayor is professor emeritus at the University of Geneva.

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  1. Building an Exoplanet Survey Tradition 3 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026
  2. The First Hot Jupiter 3 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026
  3. Precision Radial Velocity 2 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026

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