page_title: Didier Queloz
hierarchical_section_title: Didier Queloz
caption_attribution_description: English: Didier Queloz at the European Southern Observatory 50th anniversary gala, Residenz, Munich, 11 October 2012.
context_page_description: Didier Patrick Queloz FRS is a Swiss astronomer. He is a professor 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 James Peebles and Michel Mayor. He also recently said that humans will likely find alien life in the next 30 years.
context_section_description: Didier Patrick Queloz FRS([didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. He is a professor 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 James Peebles and Michel Mayor.  He also recently said that humans will likely find alien life in the next 30 years.
caption: Queloz in 2012
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