Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz: "Lostrophysics Lives a Golden Age"

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Thirty years after their discovery of the first exoplanet, the two astronomers, awarded by the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019, come back to how this announcement has changed modern astronomy.

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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Swiss Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, at a press conference at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, on December 7, 2019. JONAS EKSTROMER / AFP On October 6, 1995, two Swiss astronomers, unknown to the general public, made an announcement that will tour the world. In front of an astrophysicist parterre, gathered for a congress in Florence, Italy, Michel Mayor and his doctoral student D…