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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