English: Nobel laureate Michel Mayor at the science festival Starmus IV in Trondheim, Norway in June 2017. An emeritus professor at the University of Geneva, Mayor was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics together with Didier Queloz for the first discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. The two Swiss astrophysicists shared the prize with James Peebles, honoured for the theoretical framework of cosmology used to investigate the Universe on its largest scales. About the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Trondheim 18.06.2017 : The science festival Starmus IV at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. Professor Michel Mayor, astrophysicist at Geneva University (Switzerland). Together with Didier Queloz he discovered the first extrasolar planet. Photo: Thor Nielsen / NTNU