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Didier Queloz

Swiss astronomer

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Didier Patrick Queloz 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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Born
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Place of birth
Geneva wd
Citizenship
Switzerland wd
Occupation
astronomer, astrophysicist, university teacher wd
Education
University of Geneva wd

Awards wd

  • Wolf Prize in Physics (2017)
  • BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2011)
  • Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (2020)
  • Clarivate Citation Laureates (2013)
  • honorary doctor of the Aix-Marseille University (2020)

Questions

When was Didier Queloz born?
Didier Queloz was born on 23 February 1966 in Geneva.
Where did Didier Queloz study?
Didier Queloz was educated at University of Geneva.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Didier Queloz · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q124013 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Didier Queloz, 2012 (cropped).jpg by M.McCaughrean (ESA)/ESO (CC BY 4.0)

Last updated · facts checked 4 November 2026

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