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Didier Queloz is a Swiss astronomer known for his work in discovering exoplanets—planets that orbit stars outside our solar system. His discoveries have been important in advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond Earth and have helped establish exoplanet research as a major field in astronomy.
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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 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.
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