Michel Mayor
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Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl majɔʁ]; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim 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, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. For this achievement, they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star" resulting in "contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos". Related to the discovery, Mayor noted that humans will never migrate to such exoplanets since they are "much, much too far away ... [and would take] hundreds of millions of days using the means we have available today". However, due to discoveries by Mayor, searching for extraterrestrial communications from exoplanets may now be a more practical consideration than thought earlier.Mayor holds MS in Physics from the University of Lausanne (1966) and PhD in Astronomy from the Geneva Observatory (1971). He was a researcher at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in 1971. Subsequently, he spent sabbatical semesters at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in northern Chile and at the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Hawaiʻi System. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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- 2022-01-28Luca Malavolta, Lars A. Buchhave, Norio Narita, Michaël Gillon, Willy Benz, Heike Rauer, Annelies Mortier, Gaetano Scandariato, Valerio Nascimbeni, Yann Alibert, Juan Cabrera, Nicolas Thomas, Vardan Adibekyan, Didier Queloz, Alessandro Sozzetti, Giampaolo Piotto, David I. Futyan, Roi Alonso, Don Pollacco, Pierre F. L. Maxted, Michel Mayor, Magali Deleuil, Matthew J. Hooton, Melvyn Davies, Emilio Molinari, Nuno C. Santos, Alexis Smith, Andrew Collier Cameron, David Latham, Alexis Brandeker, Ennio Poretti, Wolfgang Baumjohann, David Ehrenreich, Malcolm Fridlund, Davide Gandolfi, Jacques Laskar, Demetrio Magrin, A. F. Martinez Fiorenzano, David F. Phillips, Damien Ségransan, David Barrado, E. Esparza-Borges, Alain Lecavelier des Étangs, Peter G. Tuthill, Joshua N. Winn
- 2022-07-13Andrew Vanderburg, Xavier Dumusque, Andrew Collier Cameron, Lars A. Buchhave, Raphaelle Haywood, David Latham, Mercedes López-Morales, Giuseppina Micela, Annelies Mortier, Emilio Molinari, David F. Phillips, Giampaolo Piotto, Ken Rice, Dimitar Sasselov, Alessandro Sozzetti, Stéphane Udry, Michel Mayor, Adriano Ghedina
- 2021-12-03Sebastiano Padovan, John Livingston, Oscar Barragán, Xavier Bonfils, Davide Gandolfi, Vincent Van Eylen, Malcolm Fridlund, Juan Cabrera, Stéphane Udry, Christophe Lovis, René Doyon, Norio Narita, Pedro Figueira, Jon M Jenkins, George R. Ricker, Joshua N. Winn, Rodrigo F. Díaz, Jack J. Lissauer, David Latham, Joshua Schlieder, Jeffrey C Smith, Samuel N. Quinn, Michel Mayor, Nuno C. Santos, Elisa Goffo, Judith Korth, Sascha Grziwa, Steve B. Howell, Kristine W. F. Lam, Seth Redfield, Roland Vanderspek, François Bouchy, José Almenara-Barrios, Alexander Chaushev, Joseph D. Twicken, Enric Palle, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Michael Vezie, Philipp Eigmüller, Szilárd Csizmadia, Alexis Smith, Savita Mathur, Eike Guenther, Pablo Lewin, Jessie Christiansen, Claudio Melo, Heike Rauer, Iskra Georgieva, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Petr Kabath, Emil Knudstrup, William D. Cochran, David Charbonneau
- 2021-10
- 2021Annelies Mortier, David Charbonneau, Allyson Bieryla, Avi Shporer, Francesco Pepe, Alessandro Sozzetti, Michel Mayor, Akihiko Fukui, Keivan Stassun, David Latham, George R. Ricker, Hannu Parviainen, Ryan Cloutier, Patrick G.J. Irwin, Darach Watson, Damien Ségransan, Samuel N. Quinn, Giampaolo Piotto, David F. Phillips, Enric Palle, Emilio Molinari, A. F. Martinez Fiorenzano, E. Esparza-Borges, Courtney D. Dressing, Andrew Collier Cameron, Jack J. Lissauer
- 2020-06-11Joseph Murphy, Ashley Chontos, Lizhou Sha, Howard Isaacson, Annelies Mortier, Mario Damasso, Daniel Huber, Alessandro Sozzetti, Andrew Collier Cameron, Stephen R. Kane, David Ciardi, Charles A. Beichman, Stéphane Udry, Christophe Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Douglas A. Caldwell, Keivan Stassun, David Latham, Roland Vanderspek, Jennifer G Winters, David F. Phillips, Andrew William Howard, Rachel A. Matson, Steve B. Howell, Ian Crossfield, George R. Ricker, Jon M Jenkins, Joshua Schlieder, Dimitar Sasselov, Michel Mayor, Erica J. Gonzales, Courtney D. Dressing, Kevin I. Collins, Jessie Christiansen, Christopher J. Burke, Matteo Pinamonti, Florian Lienhard, Peter Tenenbaum, Aldo F. Martinez Fiorenzano, Chantanelle Nava, Avet Harutyunyan, Paul A. Dalba, GIlbert Esquerdo, Ryan Cloutier, Ennio Poretti, Giampaolo Piotto, John Kielkopf, Giovanni Isopi, Adriano Ghedina, Andrea Ercolino, Xavier Dumusque, Corey Beard, Eric Ting, Emilio Molinari, Knicole Colon, Teo Mocnik, Molly Kosiarek, Aida Behmard, Pere Guerra Serra
- 2020-10-27Andrew Vanderburg, Lars A. Buchhave, Vardan Adibekyan, Alessandro Sozzetti, Nuno C. Santos, Elisa Delgado Mena, Stéphane Udry, David Ehrenreich, Christian Lovis, Yann Alibert, Luca Malavolta, Pedro Figueira, Michel Mayor, Andrew Collier Cameron, Jonay I. González Hernández, María Rosa Zapatero Osorio, David Latham, François Bouchy, Giampaolo Piotto, Enric Palle, Valentina D'Odorico, Paolo Molaro, Ennio Poretti, Mahmoudreza Oshagh, Jesus Maldonado, Laura Affer, David F. Phillips, Darach Watson, Serena Benatti, Emilio Molinari, A. Suárez Mascareño, Jorge Lillo-Box
- 2020-01
- 2020-06-04David F. Phillips, Annelies Mortier, Kevin I. Collins, Jason D. Eastman, Rodrigo F. Díaz, Mario Damasso, Ken Rice, Andrew W. Mann, Alessandro Sozzetti, Andrew Collier Cameron, Charles A. Beichman, René Doyon, Etienne Artigau, Nuno C. Santos, Claudio Melo, Stéphane Udry, Christophe Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Pedro Figueira, Jon M Jenkins, George R. Ricker, Joshua N. Winn, Jack J. Lissauer, David Latham, Ian Crossfield, Joshua Schlieder, Courtney D. Dressing, Samuel N. Quinn, Dimitar Sasselov, Michel Mayor, John Asher Johnson, David Ciardi, Douglas A. Caldwell, Christopher J. Burke, Ryan Cloutier, Steve B. Howell, Roland Vanderspek, Avet Harutyunyan, François Bouchy, Carl Ziegler, José Almenara-Barrios, Cesar Briceno, Erica J. Gonzales, Joseph D. Twicken, John Kielkopf, Rachel A. Matson, Xavier Dumusque, Patricia Boyd, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Michael Vezie, Benjamin V. Rackham, Ennio Poretti, Giampaolo Piotto, Emilio Molinari, Adriano Ghedina, Laura Kreidberg, Jennifer G Winters, Manu Stalport, Matteo Pinamonti, Florian Lienhard, Peter Tenenbaum, Aldo F. Martinez Fiorenzano, Nicholas Law, David Charbonneau
- 2019-04
- 2019-01-25
- 2019-03-27
- 2019-01-12Luca Malavolta, Annelies Mortier, Valerio Nascimbeni, Ken Rice, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, Damien Ségransan, François Bouchy, Francesco Pepe, Andrew Collier Cameron, Christian Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Pedro Figueira, David Latham, Giampaolo Piotto, Ennio Poretti, Laura Affer, David F. Phillips, Darach Watson, A. F. Martinez Fiorenzano
- 2019-01-17
- 2019-05
- 2019-02-13Sarah Blunt, Luca Malavolta, Ennio Poretti, Annelies Mortier, Ken Rice, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Giuseppina Micela, David Ciardi, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, Courtney D. Dressing, Joshua Schlieder, Ian Crossfield, Erik A. Petigura, Evan Sinukoff, Lauren M. Weiss, Mario Damasso, Andrew Vanderburg, Aldo S. Bonomo, Pedro Figueira, Giampaolo Piotto, Andrew Collier Cameron, Benjamin J. Fulton, Andrew William Howard, Lea A. Hirsch, Christophe Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Adrien Coffinet, David F. Phillips, David Latham, Dimitar Sasselov, François Bouchy, Erica J. Gonzales, Xavier Dumusque, Bronwen J. Hardee, Molly Kosiarek, Howard Isaacson, Raphaelle Haywood, Chantanelle Nava, David Charbonneau
- 2019-02-04Li Zeng, Luca Malavolta, Annelies Mortier, Mia S. Lundkvist, Aldo S. Bonomo, Valerio Nascimbeni, Rasmus Handberg, Mikkel N. Lund, Ken Rice, Lars A. Buchhave, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Rafael García, Giuseppina Micela, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, Courtney D. Dressing, Torben Arentoft, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Christophe Lovis, Victor Silva Aguirre, Pedro Figueira, Andrew Collier Cameron, David Latham, Damien Ségransan, François Bouchy, Giampaolo Piotto, Ennio Poretti, Laura Affer, David F. Phillips, Darach Watson, Dimitar Sasselov, John Asher Johnson, Mercedes López-Morales, Avet Harutyunyan, Xavier Dumusque, Savita Mathur, Andrew Vanderburg, Hans Kjeldsen, Aldo F. M. Fiorenzano, Fatemeh Motalebi, Chantanelle Nava, Sergio Molinari
- 2019
- 2018-02-08Vinesh Rajpaul, Annelies Mortier, Valerio Nascimbeni, Lars A. Buchhave, Ken Rice, Adrien Coffinet, David Ehrenreich, Christophe Lovis, François Bouchy, David Charbonneau, Xavier Dumusque, Andrew Collier Cameron, David Latham, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, Francesco Pepe, John Asher Johnson, Dimitar Sasselov, Damien Ségransan, Luca Malavolta, Mercedes López-Morales, Andrew Vanderburg, David Ciardi, Pedro Figueira, Andrew W. Mayo, Aldo S. Bonomo, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Giuseppina Micela, Laura Kreidberg, Courtney D. Dressing, Ian Crossfield, Martti H. Kristiansen, Mario Damasso, Giampaolo Piotto, Lea A. Hirsch, David F. Phillips, Steve B. Howell, Avet Harutyunyan, Erica J. Gonzales, Aldo F. M. Fiorenzano, Raphaelle Haywood, Tom Louden
- 2018-07Annelies Mortier, Luca Malavolta, Valerio Nascimbeni, Elvira Covino, Ken Rice, Andrea Bignamini, Francesco Borsa, Serena Benatti, Gaetano Scandariato, Riccardo Smareglia, Katia Biazzo, Giuseppe Leto, Alessandro Sozzetti, Silvano Desidera, Emilio Molinari, Michel Mayor, Stéphane Udry, Damien Ségransan, François Bouchy, Francesco Pepe, Nicola Astudillo-Defru, Andrew Collier Cameron, Courtney D. Dressing, Monica Rainer, Nuno C. Santos, Xavier Delfosse, Thierry Forveille, Christian Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Pedro Figueira, David Latham, Giampaolo Piotto, Ennio Poretti, Raffaele Gratton, Patrick G.J. Irwin, Jesus Maldonado, Laura Affer, Rim Fares, Antonio Maggio, Joseph Masiero, David F. Phillips, Darach Watson, Riccardo Claudi
- 2018-04-23Andrew Vanderburg, Annelies Mortier, Ken Rice, Luca Malavolta, Aldo S. Bonomo, David Latham, Michel Mayor, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Giuseppina Micela, David Ciardi, Stéphane Udry, Courtney D. Dressing, Laura Affer, Giampaolo Piotto, Andrew Collier Cameron, Christophe Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, David F. Phillips, Aldo F. M. Fiorenzano, Dimitar Sasselov, Jeffrey L. Coughlin, John Asher Johnson, Xavier Dumusque, François Bouchy, Raphaelle Haywood, Chantanelle Nava, David Charbonneau
- 2018-09-03Luca Malavolta, Ken Rice, Annelies Mortier, Valerio Nascimbeni, Alessandro Sozzetti, Emilio Molinari, Michel Mayor, Damien Ségransan, Stéphane Udry, François Bouchy, Francesco Pepe, Andrew Collier Cameron, Courtney D. Dressing, Christian Lovis, Lars A. Buchhave, Pedro Figueira, David Latham, Giampaolo Piotto, Ennio Poretti, Laura Affer, David F. Phillips, Darach Watson, A. F. Martinez Fiorenzano
- 2018-11-30Jennifer Burt, Andrew Vanderburg, Maximilian N Günther, Joshua N. Winn, Lizhou Sha, Douglas A. Caldwell, Joshua Pepper, Joseph Rodriguez, Sara Seager, George R. Ricker, David Ciardi, Stephen R. Kane, Jason Dittmann, Avi Shporer, Jessie Christiansen, Stéphane Udry, David Ehrenreich, Christophe Lovis, Norio Narita, David Latham, Roland Vanderspek, Jon M Jenkins, Michel Mayor, Robert Wittenmyer, Samuel N. Quinn, Xu Huang, Jeffrey C Smith, Michael Fausnaugh, François Bouchy, Ana Glidden, Maxime Marmier, Bill Wohler, Kari Haworth, Diana Dragomir, Drake Deming, Peter A. McCullough, David Charbonneau
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