Michel Mayor

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Michel Mayor

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Michel Mayor
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019

Born: 12 January 1942, Lausanne, Switzerland

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Prize motivation: "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

Prize share: 1/4

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