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Didier Queloz

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Didier Patrick Queloz (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) 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 at the University of Geneva. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Didier Queloz is the 129th most popular astronomer (up from 337th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 386th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Didier Queloz ranks 129 out of 644. Before him are Ernst Öpik, Maria Mitchell, Girolamo Fracastoro, Hermann Goldschmidt, Svetlana Gerasimenko, and E. M. Antoniadi. After him are Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani, Reinhard Genzel, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Victor Ambartsumian, Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, and Wilhelm von Biela.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Didier Queloz ranks 26. Before him are Roman Abramovich, Halle Berry, Robin Wright, Dikembe Mutombo, Carolyn R. Bertozzi, and David Cameron. After him are Liz Cheney, Kiefer Sutherland, Dan Schneider, Alessandro Costacurta, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and Kentaro Miura.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Didier Queloz ranks 124 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi (1773), Friedrich Miescher (1844), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Gottfried Keller (1819), and Paul Guldin (1577). After him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908), Sigismond Thalberg (1812), Marthe Keller (1945), Micheline Calmy-Rey (1945), Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702), and Ludwig Binswanger (1881).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Didier Queloz ranks 3. Before him are Michel Mayor (1942), and Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718). After him are Paul Wild (1925), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Robert Emden (1862), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664).

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