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    Didier Patrick Queloz FRS (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural...
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    Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize and the 2015 Kyoto Prize. Together with Didier Queloz in 1995...
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    The planet was originally designated 51 Pegasi b by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who discovered the planet in 1995. The following year it was unofficially...
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    astronomy. It is a copy of the ELODIE spectrograph used by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz to detect the planet orbiting a star . In April 1998 it was built and...
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    main-sequence star occurred on 6 October 1995, when Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the detection of 51 Pegasi b,...
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    discoveries in physical cosmology. He shared the prize with Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz for their discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a sun-like star. While...
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  • results might have applications in quantum computing. 7 December – Didier Queloz, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics, takes issue with those who...
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    Heinrich Rohrer, Richard Ernst, Edmond Fischer, Rolf Zinkernagel, Didier Queloz, Michel Mayor, Kurt Wüthrich, and Jacques Dubochet have received nobel...
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    orbiting the star HD 80606 in April 2001 by a team led by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz. With a mass 4 times that of Jupiter, it is a gas giant. Because the...
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  • Forveille, Thierry; Mayor, Michel; Perrier, Christian; Naef, Dominique; Queloz, Didier (1998). "The closest extrasolar planet. A giant planet around the M4...
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  • Star Names. On October 6, 1995, Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting 51 Pegasi. The discovery...
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    Mohammad Abdus Salam (Physics, 1979) Sir Aaron Klug (Chemistry, 1982) Didier Queloz (Physics, 2019) The Cavendish Professors were the heads of the department...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 Succeeded by Jim Peebles Preceded by Barry Barish Succeeded by Michel Mayor Preceded by Kip Thorne Succeeded by Didier Queloz...
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    Murad William Nordhaus; Paul Romer 2019 Jim Peebles; Michel Mayor; Didier Queloz John B. Goodenough; M. Stanley Whittingham; Akira Yoshino William Kaelin...
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  • and a thicker atmosphere leading to an airborne ecosystem. Astronomer Didier Queloz makes an appearance to discuss the discoveries of exoplanets and how...
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    and his collaborators in 1993. On 6 October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the first definitive detection...
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      Switzerland "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" Didier Queloz (b. 1966)   Switzerland  United Kingdom 2020 Roger Penrose (b. 1931)...
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    Annan (1938–2018), Nobel Peace Prize 2001; Michel Mayor (1942-- ) and Didier Queloz (1966-- ), Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 (jointly with James Peebles)...
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    Handke Peace – Abiy Ahmed Physics – James Peebles, Michel Mayor, and Didier Queloz Physiology or Medicine – William Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe, and...
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  • of an extrasolar planet orbiting around a star similar to the sun. Didier Queloz 2018 Charles H. Bennett  United States for their collaborative work...
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    (1972–1990) Malcolm Longair (1991–2008) James Stirling (2008–2013) Didier Queloz (2021–) Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Jackson, Richard (1700-1782?)" . Dictionary...
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    metres per second, which was quickly confirmed by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz from data collected over 15 years. It was later confirmed also by the...
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    influence on the Sun. Using this instrument, astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz identified 51 Pegasi b, a "Hot Jupiter" in the constellation Pegasus...
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    Chemistry 1998 Amartya Sen Economic Sciences 1998 Venkatraman Ramakrishnan Chemistry 2009 Sir Gregory Paul Winter Chemistry 2018 Didier Queloz Physics 2019...
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  • 1994: Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem 1995: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz definitively observe the first extrasolar planet around a main sequence...
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  • of Cambridge. 2017. Alexander von Boetticher; Amaury H.M.J. Triaud; Didier Queloz; Sam Gill; Monika Lendl; Laetitia Delrez; David R. Anderson; Andrew...
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    Mayor and Didier Queloz, using the radial velocity method with the 1.9-metre telescope at Haute-Provence Observatory in France. Mayor and Queloz were awarded...
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    Programme, under the responsibility of the CHEOPS Science Team (chaired by Didier Queloz). The majority of the GTO programme involves the characterization of...
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    November 2012, p. 14. See also academic mobility. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (1995). "A Jupiter-mass companion to a solar-type star". Nature. 378...
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  • 1908 Svante Arrhenius, Chemistry, 1903 Michel Mayor, Physics, 2019 Didier Queloz, Physics, 2019 Jacques Dubochet, Chemistry, 2017 Kurt Wüthrich, Chemistry...
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