Michel Mayor
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Michel Mayor receiving his Nobel Prize from H.M. King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at Konserthuset Stockholm on 10 December 2019.
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Michel Mayor after receiving his Nobel Prize at Konserthuset Stockholm, 10 December 2019.
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Michel Mayor and Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria at the Nobel Banquet, 10 December 2019.
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Twelve of the fifteen Nobel Laureates of 2019 assembled at the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm on 12 December 2019. Back row: James Peebles, Abhijit Banerjee, Didier Queloz, Michael Kremer, William G. Kaelin Jr and Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe. Front row: Olga Tokarczuk, Akira Yoshino, Esther Duflo, M. Stanley Whittingham, Gregg L. Semenza and Michel Mayor.
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Michel Mayor delivering his Nobel Lecture at the Aula Magna, Stockholm University on 8 December 2019.
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Like many Nobel Laureates before him, Michel Mayor autographs a chair at the 2019 Nobel Laureates' Get together at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm on 6 December 2019.
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Nobel Laureates in Physics, Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, and the Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Stanley Whittingham in a talk to astronauts on the International Space Station Luca Parmitano and Jessica Meir on 6 December at the Nobel Prize Museum in Stockholm.
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Physics Laureate Michel Mayor, Professor Emeritus at Geneva University in Switzerland.
Photo: ESO
Didier Queloz (left) and Michel Mayor of the Geneva Observatory in front of ESO’s 3.6-metre telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile.
Photo: The European Southern Observatory (ESO).
Portrait of Michel Mayor.
Photo: University of Geneva
Portrait of Michel Mayor.
Photo: University of Geneva
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
See them all presented here.