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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1" title="ميشيل مايور – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ميشيل مايور" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1" title="میشل مایر – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="میشل مایر" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B2_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B0" title="মিশেল মাইয়র – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মিশেল মাইয়র" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D1%88%D1%8D%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%91%D1%80" title="Мішэль Маёр – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Мішэль Маёр" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мишел Майор – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Мишел Майор" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%BB_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CE%B3%CE%B9%CF%8C%CF%81" title="Μισέλ Μαγιόρ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μισέλ Μαγιόρ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1" title="میشل مایور – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="میشل مایور" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%85%B8_%EB%A7%88%EC%9A%94%EB%A5%B4" title="미셸 마요르 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="미셸 마요르" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B7%D5%A5%D5%AC_%D5%84%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%B8%D6%80" title="Միշել Մայոր – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Միշել Մայոր" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%B0" title="मिशेल मेयर – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="मिशेल मेयर" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%9C_%D7%9E%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A8" title="מישל מאיור – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מישל מאיור" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мишель Майор – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Мишель Майор" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мишель Майор – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Мишель Майор" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Кыргызча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Mayor" title="Michael Mayor – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Michael Mayor" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мишел Мајор – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Мишел Мајор" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%BC" title="മൈക്കൽ മേയർ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മൈക്കൽ മേയർ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B1" title="ميشيل مايور – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ميشيل مايور" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B4%D9%84_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%88%D8%B1" title="میشل مایور – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="میشل مایور" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A8%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB" title="ミシェル・マイヨール – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ミシェル・マイヨール" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%B2_%E0%A8%AE%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%B0" title="ਮਿਸ਼ੇਲ ਮੇਅਰ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਿਸ਼ੇਲ ਮੇਅਰ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D1%80,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C" title="Майор, Мишель – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Майор, Мишель" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BE%D1%80" title="Мишел Мајор – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Мишел Мајор" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor" title="Michel Mayor – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Michel Mayor" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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<div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Michel Mayor</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Michel_Mayor,_2012_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Michel_Mayor%2C_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="546" data-file-height="752" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Mayor in 2012</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1942-01-12</span>) </span>12 January 1942<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 83)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Lausanne" title="Lausanne">Lausanne</a>, Switzerland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Lausanne" title="University of Lausanne">University of Lausanne</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">MS</a>)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a> <span style="font-size:85%;">(<a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Discovered first planet orbiting around a normal star, <a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi" title="51 Pegasi">51 Pegasi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Prix_Jules_Janssen" title="Prix Jules Janssen">Prix Jules Janssen</a> (1998)<br /><a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein_Medal" title="Albert Einstein Medal">Albert Einstein Medal</a>(2004)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Shaw_Prize" title="Shaw Prize">Shaw Prize</a> (2005)<br /><a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Prize_in_Basic_Sciences" title="Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences">Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences</a> (2015)<br /><a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize" title="Wolf Prize">Wolf Prize</a> (2017)<br /><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> (2019)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Astrophysics" title="Astrophysics">Astrophysics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i> "The kinematical properties of stars in the solar vicinity: possible relation with the galactic spiral structure" </i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1971)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Doctoral students</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[miʃɛl<span class="wrap"> </span>majɔʁ]</a></span>; born 12 January 1942)<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a Swiss <a href="/wiki/Astrophysicist" class="mw-redirect" title="Astrophysicist">astrophysicist</a> and professor emeritus at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a>'s Department of <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">Astronomy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the <a href="/wiki/Observatory_of_Geneva" class="mw-redirect" title="Observatory of Geneva">Observatory of Geneva</a>. He is co-laureate of the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Jim_Peebles" title="Jim Peebles">Jim Peebles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20191008_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20191008-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the winner of the 2010 <a href="/wiki/Viktor_Ambartsumian#Viktor_Ambartsumian_International_Prize" title="Viktor Ambartsumian">Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the 2015 <a href="/wiki/Kyoto_Prize" title="Kyoto Prize">Kyoto Prize</a>. </p><p>Together with <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a> in 1995, he discovered <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi_b" title="51 Pegasi b">51 Pegasi b</a></span>, the first <a href="/wiki/Extrasolar_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Extrasolar planet">extrasolar planet</a> orbiting a sun-like star, <a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi" title="51 Pegasi">51 Pegasi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For this achievement, they were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star"<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> resulting in "contributions to our understanding of the evolution of the universe and Earth’s place in the cosmos".<sup id="cite_ref-Wenz_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Wenz-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Related to the discovery, Mayor noted that humans will never migrate to such exoplanets since they are "much, much too far away ... [and would take] hundreds of millions of days using the means we have available today".<sup id="cite_ref-PHY-20191009_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PHY-20191009-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, due to discoveries by Mayor, searching for <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_communications" class="mw-redirect" title="Extraterrestrial communications">extraterrestrial communications</a> from <a href="/wiki/Exoplanet" title="Exoplanet">exoplanets</a> may now be a more practical consideration than thought earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC-20191009_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC-20191009-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education_and_career">Education and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michel_Mayor&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mayor obtained an <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Science" title="Master of Science">MS</a> degree in <a href="/wiki/Physics" title="Physics">Physics</a> from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Lausanne" title="University of Lausanne">University of Lausanne</a> (1966) and a <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy" title="Doctor of Philosophy">PhD</a> in <a href="/wiki/Astronomy" title="Astronomy">Astronomy</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Observatory" title="Geneva Observatory">Geneva Observatory</a> in 1971. He was a researcher at the <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Astronomy,_Cambridge" title="Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge">Institute of Astronomy</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a> in 1971. Subsequently, he spent <a href="/wiki/Sabbatical" title="Sabbatical">sabbatical</a> semesters at the <a href="/wiki/European_Southern_Observatory" title="European Southern Observatory">European Southern Observatory</a> (ESO) in northern Chile and at the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Astronomy_(Hawaii)" title="Institute for Astronomy (Hawaii)">Institute for Astronomy</a> of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hawai%CA%BBi_System" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Hawaiʻi System">University of Hawaiʻi System</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From 1971 to 1984, Mayor worked as a research associate at the <a href="/wiki/Observatory_of_Geneva" class="mw-redirect" title="Observatory of Geneva">Observatory of Geneva</a>, which is home to the astronomy department of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a>. He became an associate professor at the university in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1988, the university named him a full professor, a position he held until his retirement in 2007. Mayor was director of the Observatory of Geneva from 1998 to 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a professor emeritus at the University of Geneva.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Research">Research</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michel_Mayor&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Research"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_(6812451755).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg/220px-Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg/330px-Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg/440px-Didier_Queloz_and_Michel_Mayor_at_La_Silla_%286812451755%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a> and Michel Mayor at the <a href="/wiki/La_Silla_Observatory" title="La Silla Observatory">La Silla Observatory</a> (2012)</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/220px--Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="124" data-durationhint="323" data-mwtitle="Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_(eso0939c).webm" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_(eso0939c).webm"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="854" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-width="1280" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="426" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/d/d2/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm/Video_News_Release_28_-_32_New_Exoplanets_Found_%28eso0939c%29.webm.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="640" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Video: Michel Mayer speaks about the discovery of exoplanets (after 2:07)</figcaption></figure> <p>Mayor's research interests include extrasolar planets (also known as <a href="/wiki/Exoplanets" class="mw-redirect" title="Exoplanets">exoplanets</a>), instrumentation, statistical properties of <a href="/wiki/Double_stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Double stars">double stars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Globular_cluster" title="Globular cluster">globular cluster</a> dynamics, galactic structure and <a href="/wiki/Kinematics" title="Kinematics">kinematics</a>. Mayor's doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva was devoted to the spiral structure of galaxies.<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his time as a research associate, there had been strong interest in developing <a href="/wiki/Photoelectric_effect" title="Photoelectric effect">photoelectric</a>-based <a href="/wiki/Doppler_spectroscopy" title="Doppler spectroscopy">Doppler spectrometers</a> to obtain more accurate measurements of <a href="/wiki/Radial_velocity" title="Radial velocity">radial velocities</a> of stellar objects compared to existing photographic methods. Following preliminary work by <a href="/wiki/Roger_Griffin_(astronomer)" title="Roger Griffin (astronomer)">Roger Griffin</a> in 1967 to show the feasibility of photoelectric measurements of radial velocities, Mayor worked with André Baranne at the <a href="/wiki/Marseille_Observatory" title="Marseille Observatory">Marseille Observatory</a> to develop CORAVEL, a photoelectric spectrometer capable of highly accurate radial velocity measurements, which allow measurement of star movements, orbital periods of <a href="/wiki/Binary_stars" class="mw-redirect" title="Binary stars">binary stars</a>, and even the rotational speed of stars.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This research led to various fields of interest, including the study of statistical characteristics of solar-type binary stars. With fellow researcher Antoine Duquennoy, they examined the radial velocities of several systems believed to be binary stars in 1991. Their results found that a subset of these may in fact be single star systems with substellar secondary objects.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Desiring more accurate radial velocity measurements, Mayor, along with Baranne at Marseille, and with graduate student <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a>, developed <a href="/wiki/ELODIE_spectrograph" title="ELODIE spectrograph">ELODIE</a>, a new spectrograph based on the work of CORAVEL, which was estimated to have an accuracy of 15 m/s for bright stars, improving upon the 1 km/s from CORAVEL. ELODIE was developed with the specific intent to determine if the substellar secondary objects were <a href="/wiki/Brown_dwarf" title="Brown dwarf">brown dwarf</a> stars or potentially giant planets.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By 1994, ELODIE was operational at Geneva and Mayor and Queloz began their survey of Sun-like systems with suspected substellar secondary objects.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 1995, the pair's survey of <a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi" title="51 Pegasi">51 Pegasi</a> affirmed that there was an <a href="/wiki/Exoplanet" title="Exoplanet">exoplanet</a> orbiting it, identified as <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi_b" title="51 Pegasi b">51 Pegasi b</a></span>, which was later classified as a <a href="/wiki/Hot_Jupiter" title="Hot Jupiter">hot-Jupiter</a>–type planet. This was the first exoplanet to be found orbiting a <a href="/wiki/Main-sequence" class="mw-redirect" title="Main-sequence">main-sequence</a> star, as opposed to planets that orbited the remains of a star.<sup id="cite_ref-nature378_6555_355_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nature378_6555_355-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mayor's and Queloz's discovery of an exoplanet launched great interest is searching for other exoplanets since.<sup id="cite_ref-gibn_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gibn-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 21 March 2022, the 5000th exoplanet beyond our solar system was confirmed.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mayor's work focused more on improving instrumentation for radial velocity measurements to improve detecting exoplanets and measuring their properties. Mayor led a team to further improve ELODIE to increase velocity measurement accuracy to 1 m/s via the <a href="/wiki/High_Accuracy_Radial_Velocity_Planet_Searcher" title="High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher">High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher</a> (HARPS) installed on the <a href="/wiki/ESO_3.6_m_Telescope" title="ESO 3.6 m Telescope">ESO 3.6 m Telescope</a> at <a href="/wiki/La_Silla_Observatory" title="La Silla Observatory">La Silla Observatory</a> in Chile by 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mayor led the team that used HARPS to seek out other exoplanets. In 2007, Mayor was one of 11 European scientists who discovered <a href="/wiki/Gliese_581c" title="Gliese 581c">Gliese 581c</a>, the first extrasolar planet in a star's habitable zone, from the ESO telescope.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2009, Mayor and his team discovered the lightest exoplanet ever detected around a <a href="/wiki/Main_sequence" title="Main sequence">main sequence</a> star: <a href="/wiki/Gliese_581e" title="Gliese 581e">Gliese 581e</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nonetheless, Mayor noted that humans will never migrate to such exoplanets since they are "much, much too far away ... [and would take] hundreds of millions of days using the means we have available today".<sup id="cite_ref-PHY-20191009_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PHY-20191009-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, due to discoveries by Mayor, searching for extraterrestrial communications from exoplanets may now be a more practical consideration than thought earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC-20191009_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC-20191009-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_distinctions">Awards and distinctions</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michel_Mayor&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and distinctions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1998, Mayor was awarded the Swiss <a href="/wiki/Marcel_Benoist_Prize" title="Marcel Benoist Prize">Marcel Benoist Prize</a><sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in recognition of his work and its significance for human life. As of 2003, he was a member of the board of trustees. He received the <a href="/wiki/Prix_Jules_Janssen" title="Prix Jules Janssen">Prix Jules Janssen</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_astronomique_de_France" title="Société astronomique de France">Société astronomique de France</a> (French Astronomical Society) in 1998.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2000, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Balzan_Prize" title="Balzan Prize">Balzan Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Four years later, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Albert_Einstein_Medal" title="Albert Einstein Medal">Albert Einstein Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Cercle_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cercle-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, he received the <a href="/wiki/Shaw_Prize" title="Shaw Prize">Shaw Prize</a> in Astronomy, along with American astrophysicist <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Marcy" title="Geoffrey Marcy">Geoffrey Marcy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT-20140512_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-20140512-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mayor was made a knight of the French <a href="/wiki/Legion_d%27Honneur" class="mw-redirect" title="Legion d'Honneur">Legion d'Honneur</a> in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In collaboration with Pierre-Yves Frei, Mayor wrote a book in French called <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Les Nouveaux mondes du Cosmos</i></span> (<a href="/wiki/Seuil" title="Seuil">Seuil</a>, 260 pages), which was awarded the <span title="French-language text"><i lang="fr">Livre de l'astronomie 2001</i></span> prize by the 17th Astronomy Festival Haute Maurienne.<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mayor has received honorary doctorate degrees from eight universities: <a href="/wiki/Katholieke_Universiteit_Leuven" class="mw-redirect" title="Katholieke Universiteit Leuven">Katholieke Universiteit Leuven</a> (<a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>), 2001; <a href="/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d%C3%A9rale_de_Lausanne" title="École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne">École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)</a> (<a href="/wiki/Lausanne" title="Lausanne">Lausanne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>) (2002); <a href="/wiki/Federal_University_of_Rio_Grande_do_Norte" title="Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte">Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte</a> (<a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>), 2006; <a href="/wiki/Uppsala_University" title="Uppsala University">Uppsala University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden">Sweden</a>), 2007; <a href="/wiki/Paris_Observatory" title="Paris Observatory">Paris Observatory</a> (<a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>), 2008; <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Libre_de_Bruxelles" class="mw-redirect" title="Université Libre de Bruxelles">Université Libre de Bruxelles</a> (Belgium), 2009; <a href="/wiki/University_of_Provence" title="University of Provence">University of Provence</a> (<a href="/wiki/Marseille,_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Marseille, France">Marseille, France</a>), 2011, and <a href="/wiki/Universit%C3%A9_Joseph_Fourier" class="mw-redirect" title="Université Joseph Fourier">Université Joseph Fourier</a> (<a href="/wiki/Grenoble,_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Grenoble, France">Grenoble, France</a>), 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mayor has received the 2011 <a href="/wiki/BBVA_Foundation_Frontiers_of_Knowledge_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards">BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award</a> of Basic Sciences (together with his former student <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a>) for developing new astronomical instruments and experimental techniques that led to the first observation of planets around Sun-like stars.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Asteroid <a href="/wiki/125076_Michelmayor" class="mw-redirect" title="125076 Michelmayor">125076 Michelmayor</a>, discovered by Swiss amateur astronomer <a href="/wiki/Michel_Ory" title="Michel Ory">Michel Ory</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Jura_Observatory" title="Jura Observatory">Jura Observatory</a> in 2001, was named in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-object_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-object-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The official <a href="/wiki/Meanings_of_minor-planet_names:_125001%E2%80%93126000#076" title="Meanings of minor-planet names: 125001–126000">naming citation</a> was published by the <a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Center" title="Minor Planet Center">Minor Planet Center</a> on 21 August 2013 (<span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="/wiki/Minor_Planet_Circulars" class="mw-redirect" title="Minor Planet Circulars">M.P.C.</a> 84674</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-MPC-Circulars-Archive_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MPC-Circulars-Archive-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, he was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society">Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/laureates/michel_mayor/">Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences</a>. In 2017, he received the <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" title="Wolf Prize in Physics">Wolf Prize in Physics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He and <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Didier Queloz</a> (also from Switzerland) were awarded one half of the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Physics" title="Nobel Prize in Physics">Nobel Prize in Physics</a> for the discovery of the exoplanet <a href="/wiki/51_Pegasi_b" title="51 Pegasi b">51 Pegasi b</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Participation_in_professional_associations">Participation in professional associations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michel_Mayor&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Participation in professional associations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Publisher and organizer of nine Saas-Fee Advanced Courses of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Member of the editorial board of <i>Europhysics News</i>, 1985–1990<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Swiss delegate for the <a href="/wiki/European_Space_Agency" title="European Space Agency">European Space Agency</a> (ESA)'s Astronomical Working Group, 1985–1987<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President of the <a href="/wiki/International_Astronomical_Union" title="International Astronomical Union">International Astronomical Union</a> (IAU)'s Commission 33 on the "Structure and dynamics of the galactic system, 1988–1991<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Chairman of the <a href="/wiki/European_Southern_Observatory" title="European Southern Observatory">European Southern Observatory</a>'s Scientific Technical Committee, 1990–1992<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President of the Swiss Society of Astrophysics and Astronomy (SAAS), 1990–1993<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Member of the organizing committee of the IAU Commission on Bioastronomy, 1997–2003<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Swiss delegate to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Council, 2003–2007<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>President of the IAU commission on extra-solar planets, 2006–2009<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Foreign Associate of the <a href="/wiki/French_Academy_of_Sciences" title="French Academy of Sciences">French Academy of Sciences</a> (Académie des sciences), 2003<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Honorary Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Astronomical_Society" title="Royal Astronomical Society">Royal Astronomical Society</a> (UK), 2008<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Foreign member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="National Academy of Sciences">National Academy of Sciences</a> (US), 2010<sup id="cite_ref-cv_fr_acad_sci_25-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cv_fr_acad_sci-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Foreign member of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, 2010</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Michel_Mayor&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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href="https://exoplanets.ch/team/faculty-members/michel-mayor/">Michel Mayor's profile</a> on <a href="/wiki/University_of_Geneva" title="University of Geneva">University of Geneva</a> website</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nobelprize.org/laureate/974">Michel Mayor</a> on Nobelprize.org <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123975#P8024" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" 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Siegbahn</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1925: <a href="/wiki/James_Franck" title="James Franck">Franck</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Ludwig_Hertz" title="Gustav Ludwig Hertz">Hertz</a></span></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="5" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/80px-Nobel_Prize.png" decoding="async" width="80" height="79" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/120px-Nobel_Prize.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Nobel_Prize.png/160px-Nobel_Prize.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="492" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1926–1950</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1926: <a href="/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Perrin" title="Jean Baptiste Perrin">Perrin</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1927: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Compton" title="Arthur Compton">Compton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_Thomson_Rees_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Thomson Rees Wilson">C. Wilson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1928: <a href="/wiki/Owen_Willans_Richardson" class="mw-redirect" title="Owen Willans Richardson">O. Richardson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1929: <a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie" title="Louis de Broglie">De Broglie</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1930: <a href="/wiki/C._V._Raman" title="C. V. Raman">Raman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1931</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1932: <a href="/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg" title="Werner Heisenberg">Heisenberg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1933: <a href="/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger" title="Erwin Schrödinger">Schrödinger</a> / <a href="/wiki/Paul_Dirac" title="Paul Dirac">Dirac</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1934</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1935: <a href="/wiki/James_Chadwick" title="James Chadwick">Chadwick</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1936: <a href="/wiki/Victor_Francis_Hess" title="Victor Francis Hess">Hess</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carl_David_Anderson" title="Carl David Anderson">C. D. Anderson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1937: <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Davisson" title="Clinton Davisson">Davisson</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Paget_Thomson" title="George Paget Thomson">G. P. Thomson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1938: <a href="/wiki/Enrico_Fermi" title="Enrico Fermi">Fermi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1939: <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lawrence" title="Ernest Lawrence">Lawrence</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1940</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1941</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:darkgrey">1942</span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1943: <a href="/wiki/Otto_Stern" title="Otto Stern">Stern</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1944: <a href="/wiki/Isidor_Isaac_Rabi" title="Isidor Isaac Rabi">Rabi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1945: <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli" title="Wolfgang Pauli">Pauli</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1946: <a href="/wiki/Percy_Williams_Bridgman" title="Percy Williams Bridgman">Bridgman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1947: <a href="/wiki/Edward_Victor_Appleton" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward Victor Appleton">Appleton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1948: <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Blackett" title="Patrick Blackett">Blackett</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1949: <a href="/wiki/Hideki_Yukawa" title="Hideki Yukawa">Yukawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1950: <a href="/wiki/C._F._Powell" title="C. F. Powell">Powell</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1951: <a href="/wiki/John_Cockcroft" title="John Cockcroft">Cockcroft</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Walton" title="Ernest Walton">Walton</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1952: <a href="/wiki/Felix_Bloch" title="Felix Bloch">Bloch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Edward_Mills_Purcell" title="Edward Mills Purcell">Purcell</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1953: <a href="/wiki/Frits_Zernike" title="Frits Zernike">Zernike</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1954: <a href="/wiki/Max_Born" title="Max Born">Born</a> / <a href="/wiki/Walther_Bothe" title="Walther Bothe">Bothe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1955: <a href="/wiki/Willis_Lamb" title="Willis Lamb">Lamb</a> / <a href="/wiki/Polykarp_Kusch" title="Polykarp Kusch">Kusch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1956: <a href="/wiki/William_Shockley" title="William Shockley">Shockley</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">Bardeen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Walter_Houser_Brattain" title="Walter Houser Brattain">Brattain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1957: <a href="/wiki/Yang_Chen-Ning" title="Yang Chen-Ning">C. N. Yang</a> / <a href="/wiki/Tsung-Dao_Lee" title="Tsung-Dao Lee">T. D. Lee</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1958: <a href="/wiki/Pavel_Cherenkov" title="Pavel Cherenkov">Cherenkov</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ilya_Frank" title="Ilya Frank">Frank</a> / <a href="/wiki/Igor_Tamm" title="Igor Tamm">Tamm</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1959: <a href="/wiki/Emilio_Segr%C3%A8" title="Emilio Segrè">Segrè</a> / <a href="/wiki/Owen_Chamberlain" title="Owen Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1960: <a href="/wiki/Donald_A._Glaser" title="Donald A. Glaser">Glaser</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1961: <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hofstadter" title="Robert Hofstadter">Hofstadter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Rudolf_M%C3%B6ssbauer" title="Rudolf Mössbauer">Mössbauer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1962: <a href="/wiki/Lev_Landau" title="Lev Landau">Landau</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1963: <a href="/wiki/Eugene_Wigner" title="Eugene Wigner">Wigner</a> / <a href="/wiki/Maria_Goeppert_Mayer" title="Maria Goeppert Mayer">Goeppert Mayer</a> / <a href="/wiki/J._Hans_D._Jensen" title="J. Hans D. Jensen">Jensen</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1964: <a href="/wiki/Charles_H._Townes" title="Charles H. Townes">Townes</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nikolay_Basov" title="Nikolay Basov">Basov</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Prokhorov" title="Alexander Prokhorov">Prokhorov</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1965: <a href="/wiki/Shin%27ichir%C5%8D_Tomonaga" title="Shin'ichirō Tomonaga">Tomonaga</a> / <a href="/wiki/Julian_Schwinger" title="Julian Schwinger">Schwinger</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_Feynman" title="Richard Feynman">Feynman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1966: <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kastler" title="Alfred Kastler">Kastler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1967: <a href="/wiki/Hans_Bethe" title="Hans Bethe">Bethe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1968: <a href="/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez" title="Luis Walter Alvarez">Alvarez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1969: <a href="/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann" title="Murray Gell-Mann">Gell-Mann</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1970: <a href="/wiki/Hannes_Alfv%C3%A9n" title="Hannes Alfvén">Alfvén</a> / <a href="/wiki/Louis_N%C3%A9el" title="Louis Néel">Néel</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1971: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Gabor" title="Dennis Gabor">Gabor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1972: <a href="/wiki/John_Bardeen" title="John Bardeen">Bardeen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Leon_Cooper" title="Leon Cooper">Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Robert_Schrieffer" title="John Robert Schrieffer">Schrieffer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1973: <a href="/wiki/Leo_Esaki" title="Leo Esaki">Esaki</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ivar_Giaever" title="Ivar Giaever">Giaever</a> / <a href="/wiki/Brian_Josephson" title="Brian Josephson">Josephson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1974: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Ryle" title="Martin Ryle">Ryle</a> / <a href="/wiki/Antony_Hewish" title="Antony Hewish">Hewish</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1975: <a href="/wiki/Aage_Bohr" title="Aage Bohr">A. Bohr</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ben_Roy_Mottelson" title="Ben Roy Mottelson">Mottelson</a> / <a href="/wiki/James_Rainwater" title="James Rainwater">Rainwater</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">1976: <a href="/wiki/Burton_Richter" title="Burton Richter">Richter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Samuel_C._C._Ting" title="Samuel C. C. Ting">Ting</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1977: <a href="/wiki/Philip_W._Anderson" title="Philip W. Anderson">P. W. Anderson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nevill_Francis_Mott" class="mw-redirect" title="Nevill Francis Mott">Mott</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Hasbrouck_Van_Vleck" title="John Hasbrouck Van Vleck">Van Vleck</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1978: <a href="/wiki/Pyotr_Kapitsa" title="Pyotr Kapitsa">Kapitsa</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arno_Allan_Penzias" title="Arno Allan Penzias">Penzias</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Woodrow_Wilson" title="Robert Woodrow Wilson">R. Wilson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1979: <a href="/wiki/Sheldon_Glashow" title="Sheldon Glashow">Glashow</a> / <a href="/wiki/Abdus_Salam" title="Abdus Salam">Salam</a> / <a href="/wiki/Steven_Weinberg" title="Steven Weinberg">Weinberg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1980: <a href="/wiki/James_Cronin" title="James Cronin">Cronin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Val_Logsdon_Fitch" title="Val Logsdon Fitch">Fitch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1981: <a href="/wiki/Nicolaas_Bloembergen" title="Nicolaas Bloembergen">Bloembergen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Leonard_Schawlow" title="Arthur Leonard Schawlow">Schawlow</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kai_Siegbahn" title="Kai Siegbahn">K. Siegbahn</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1982: <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_G._Wilson" title="Kenneth G. Wilson">K. Wilson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1983: <a href="/wiki/Subrahmanyan_Chandrasekhar" title="Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar">Chandrasekhar</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Alfred_Fowler" title="William Alfred Fowler">Fowler</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1984: <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Rubbia" title="Carlo Rubbia">Rubbia</a> / <a href="/wiki/Simon_van_der_Meer" title="Simon van der Meer">Van der Meer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1985: <a href="/wiki/Klaus_von_Klitzing" title="Klaus von Klitzing">von Klitzing</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1986: <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Ruska" title="Ernst Ruska">Ruska</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gerd_Binnig" title="Gerd Binnig">Binnig</a> / <a href="/wiki/Heinrich_Rohrer" title="Heinrich Rohrer">Rohrer</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1987: <a href="/wiki/Georg_Bednorz" title="Georg Bednorz">Bednorz</a> / <a href="/wiki/K._Alex_M%C3%BCller" title="K. Alex Müller">Müller</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1988: <a href="/wiki/Leon_M._Lederman" title="Leon M. Lederman">Lederman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Melvin_Schwartz" title="Melvin Schwartz">Schwartz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jack_Steinberger" title="Jack Steinberger">Steinberger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1989: <a href="/wiki/Norman_Ramsey_Jr." title="Norman Ramsey Jr.">Ramsey</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hans_Georg_Dehmelt" title="Hans Georg Dehmelt">Dehmelt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Paul" title="Wolfgang Paul">Paul</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1990: <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Isaac_Friedman" title="Jerome Isaac Friedman">Friedman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Henry_Way_Kendall" title="Henry Way Kendall">Kendall</a> / <a href="/wiki/Richard_E._Taylor" title="Richard E. Taylor">R. Taylor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1991: <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes" title="Pierre-Gilles de Gennes">de Gennes</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1992: <a href="/wiki/Georges_Charpak" title="Georges Charpak">Charpak</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1993: <a href="/wiki/Russell_Alan_Hulse" title="Russell Alan Hulse">Hulse</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor_Jr." title="Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.">J. Taylor</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1994: <a href="/wiki/Bertram_Brockhouse" title="Bertram Brockhouse">Brockhouse</a> / <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Shull" title="Clifford Shull">Shull</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1995: <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lewis_Perl" title="Martin Lewis Perl">Perl</a> / <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Reines" title="Frederick Reines">Reines</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1996: <a href="/wiki/David_Lee_(physicist)" title="David Lee (physicist)">D. Lee</a> / <a href="/wiki/Douglas_Osheroff" title="Douglas Osheroff">Osheroff</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Coleman_Richardson" title="Robert Coleman Richardson">R. Richardson</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1997: <a href="/wiki/Steven_Chu" title="Steven Chu">Chu</a> / <a href="/wiki/Claude_Cohen-Tannoudji" title="Claude Cohen-Tannoudji">Cohen-Tannoudji</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Daniel_Phillips" title="William Daniel Phillips">Phillips</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1998: <a href="/wiki/Robert_B._Laughlin" title="Robert B. Laughlin">Laughlin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Horst_Ludwig_St%C3%B6rmer" title="Horst Ludwig Störmer">Störmer</a> / <a href="/wiki/Daniel_C._Tsui" title="Daniel C. Tsui">Tsui</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">1999: <a href="/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">'t Hooft</a> / <a href="/wiki/Martinus_J._G._Veltman" title="Martinus J. G. Veltman">Veltman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2000: <a href="/wiki/Zhores_Alferov" title="Zhores Alferov">Alferov</a> / <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Kroemer" title="Herbert Kroemer">Kroemer</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kilby" title="Jack Kilby">Kilby</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–<br />present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">2001: <a href="/wiki/Eric_Allin_Cornell" title="Eric Allin Cornell">Cornell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Ketterle" title="Wolfgang Ketterle">Ketterle</a> / <a href="/wiki/Carl_Wieman" title="Carl Wieman">Wieman</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2002: <a href="/wiki/Raymond_Davis_Jr." title="Raymond Davis Jr.">Davis</a> / <a href="/wiki/Masatoshi_Koshiba" title="Masatoshi Koshiba">Koshiba</a> / <a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi" title="Riccardo Giacconi">Giacconi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2003: <a href="/wiki/Alexei_Abrikosov_(physicist)" title="Alexei Abrikosov (physicist)">Abrikosov</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg" title="Vitaly Ginzburg">Ginzburg</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anthony_James_Leggett" title="Anthony James Leggett">Leggett</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2004: <a href="/wiki/David_Gross" title="David Gross">Gross</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hugh_David_Politzer" title="Hugh David Politzer">Politzer</a> / <a href="/wiki/Frank_Wilczek" title="Frank Wilczek">Wilczek</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2005: <a href="/wiki/Roy_J._Glauber" title="Roy J. Glauber">Glauber</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_L._Hall" title="John L. Hall">Hall</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theodor_W._H%C3%A4nsch" title="Theodor W. Hänsch">Hänsch</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2006: <a href="/wiki/John_C._Mather" title="John C. Mather">Mather</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Smoot" title="George Smoot">Smoot</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2007: <a href="/wiki/Albert_Fert" title="Albert Fert">Fert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gr%C3%BCnberg" title="Peter Grünberg">Grünberg</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2008: <a href="/wiki/Yoichiro_Nambu" title="Yoichiro Nambu">Nambu</a> / <a href="/wiki/Makoto_Kobayashi_(physicist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Makoto Kobayashi (physicist)">Kobayashi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Toshihide_Maskawa" title="Toshihide Maskawa">Maskawa</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2009: <a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Kao" title="Charles K. Kao">Kao</a> / <a href="/wiki/Willard_Boyle" title="Willard Boyle">Boyle</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_E._Smith" title="George E. Smith">Smith</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2010: <a href="/wiki/Andre_Geim" title="Andre Geim">Geim</a> / <a href="/wiki/Konstantin_Novoselov" title="Konstantin Novoselov">Novoselov</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2011: <a href="/wiki/Saul_Perlmutter" title="Saul Perlmutter">Perlmutter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Brian_Schmidt" title="Brian Schmidt">Schmidt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Adam_Riess" title="Adam Riess">Riess</a> </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2012: <a href="/wiki/David_J._Wineland" title="David J. Wineland">Wineland</a> / <a href="/wiki/Serge_Haroche" title="Serge Haroche">Haroche</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2013: <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Englert" title="François Englert">Englert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Higgs" title="Peter Higgs">Higgs</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2014: <a href="/wiki/Isamu_Akasaki" title="Isamu Akasaki">Akasaki</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hiroshi_Amano" title="Hiroshi Amano">Amano</a> / <a href="/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura" title="Shuji Nakamura">Nakamura</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2015: <a href="/wiki/Takaaki_Kajita" title="Takaaki Kajita">Kajita</a> / <a href="/wiki/Arthur_B._McDonald" title="Arthur B. McDonald">McDonald</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2016: <a href="/wiki/David_J._Thouless" class="mw-redirect" title="David J. Thouless">Thouless</a> / <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Haldane" title="Duncan Haldane">Haldane</a> / <a href="/wiki/J._Michael_Kosterlitz" title="J. Michael Kosterlitz">Kosterlitz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2017: <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Weiss" title="Rainer Weiss">Weiss</a> / <a href="/wiki/Barry_Barish" title="Barry Barish">Barish</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kip_Thorne" title="Kip Thorne">Thorne</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2018: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ashkin" title="Arthur Ashkin">Ashkin</a> / <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Mourou" title="Gérard Mourou">Mourou</a> / <a href="/wiki/Donna_Strickland" title="Donna Strickland">Strickland</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2019: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Peebles" title="Jim Peebles">Peebles</a> / <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mayor</a> / <a href="/wiki/Didier_Queloz" title="Didier Queloz">Queloz</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2020: <a href="/wiki/Roger_Penrose" title="Roger Penrose">Penrose</a> / <a href="/wiki/Reinhard_Genzel" title="Reinhard Genzel">Genzel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Andrea_M._Ghez" title="Andrea M. Ghez">Ghez</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2021: <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Parisi" title="Giorgio Parisi">Parisi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Klaus_Hasselmann" title="Klaus Hasselmann">Hasselmann</a> / <a href="/wiki/Syukuro_Manabe" title="Syukuro Manabe">Manabe</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2022: <a href="/wiki/Alain_Aspect" title="Alain Aspect">Aspect</a> / <a href="/wiki/John_Clauser" title="John Clauser">Clauser</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger" title="Anton Zeilinger">Zeilinger</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2023: <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Agostini" title="Pierre Agostini">Agostini</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Krausz" title="Ferenc Krausz">Krausz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anne_L%27Huillier" title="Anne L'Huillier">L'Huillier</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">2024: <a href="/wiki/John_Hopfield" title="John Hopfield">Hopfield</a> / <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Hinton" title="Geoffrey Hinton">Hinton</a></span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="2019_Nobel_Prize_laureates845" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:2019_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template:2019 Nobel Prize winners"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:2019_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Template talk:2019 Nobel Prize winners"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:2019_Nobel_Prize_winners" title="Special:EditPage/Template:2019 Nobel Prize winners"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="2019_Nobel_Prize_laureates845" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">2019 <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize" title="Nobel Prize">Nobel Prize</a> laureates</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Chemistry" title="Nobel Prize in Chemistry">Chemistry</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_B._Goodenough" title="John B. 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Bennett">Charles Bennett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lyman_Page" title="Lyman Page">Lyman Page</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Spergel" title="David Spergel">David Spergel</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enrico_Costa_(physicist)" title="Enrico Costa (physicist)">Enrico Costa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Gerald_J._Fishman" title="Gerald J. Fishman">Gerald Fishman</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_C._Jewitt" title="David C. Jewitt">David C. Jewitt</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jane_Luu" title="Jane Luu">Jane Luu</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Balbus" title="Steven Balbus">Steven Balbus</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_F._Hawley" title="John F. Hawley">John F. Hawley</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Eisenstein" title="Daniel Eisenstein">Daniel Eisenstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shaun_Cole" title="Shaun Cole">Shaun Cole</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_A._Peacock" title="John A. Peacock">John A. Peacock</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Borucki" title="William J. Borucki">William J. Borucki</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Drever" title="Ronald Drever">Ronald Drever</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kip_Thorne" title="Kip Thorne">Kip Thorne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Weiss" title="Rainer Weiss">Rainer Weiss</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_White" title="Simon White">Simon White</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Loup_Puget" title="Jean-Loup Puget">Jean-Loup Puget</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_C._Stone" title="Edward C. Stone">Edward C. Stone</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Blandford" title="Roger Blandford">Roger Blandford</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Victoria_Kaspi" title="Victoria Kaspi">Victoria Kaspi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chryssa_Kouveliotou" title="Chryssa Kouveliotou">Chryssa Kouveliotou</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lennart_Lindegren" title="Lennart Lindegren">Lennart Lindegren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Perryman" title="Michael Perryman">Michael Perryman</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_Bailes" title="Matthew Bailes">Matthew Bailes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Duncan_Lorimer" title="Duncan Lorimer">Duncan Lorimer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maura_McLaughlin" title="Maura McLaughlin">Maura McLaughlin</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrinivas_R._Kulkarni" class="mw-redirect" title="Shrinivas R. Kulkarni">Shrinivas R. Kulkarni</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#d3d3d3;">Life science<br />and medicine</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Norman_Cohen" title="Stanley Norman Cohen">Stanley Norman Cohen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Boyer" title="Herbert Boyer">Herbert Boyer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yuet_Wai_Kan" title="Yuet Wai Kan">Yuet-Wai Kan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Doll" title="Richard Doll">Richard Doll</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Berridge" title="Michael Berridge">Michael Berridge</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Xiaodong_Wang_(biochemist)" title="Xiaodong Wang (biochemist)">Xiaodong Wang</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Lefkowitz" title="Robert Lefkowitz">Robert Lefkowitz</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_Wilmut" title="Ian Wilmut">Ian Wilmut</a>, <a href="/wiki/Keith_Campbell_(biologist)" title="Keith Campbell (biologist)">Keith H. S. Campbell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shinya_Yamanaka" title="Shinya Yamanaka">Shinya Yamanaka</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_L._Coleman" title="Douglas L. Coleman">Douglas Coleman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_M._Friedman" title="Jeffrey M. Friedman">Jeffrey Friedman</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Julius" title="David Julius">David Julius</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jules_A._Hoffmann" title="Jules A. Hoffmann">Jules Hoffmann</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruslan_Medzhitov" title="Ruslan Medzhitov">Ruslan Medzhitov</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bruce_Beutler" title="Bruce Beutler">Bruce Beutler</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franz-Ulrich_Hartl" title="Franz-Ulrich Hartl">Franz-Ulrich Hartl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_L._Horwich" title="Arthur L. Horwich">Arthur L. Horwich</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_C._Hall" title="Jeffrey C. Hall">Jeffrey C. Hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Rosbash" title="Michael Rosbash">Michael Rosbash</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_W._Young" title="Michael W. Young">Michael W. Young</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazutoshi_Mori" title="Kazutoshi Mori">Kazutoshi Mori</a> and <a href="/wiki/Peter_Walter" title="Peter Walter">Peter Walter</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Bassler" title="Bonnie Bassler">Bonnie Bassler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Everett_Peter_Greenberg" title="Everett Peter Greenberg">Everett Peter Greenberg</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Bird" title="Adrian Bird">Adrian Bird</a> and <a href="/wiki/Huda_Zoghbi" title="Huda Zoghbi">Huda Zoghbi</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_R._Gibbons" title="Ian R. Gibbons">Ian R. Gibbons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Vale" title="Ronald Vale">Ronald Vale</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary-Claire_King" title="Mary-Claire King">Mary-Claire King</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Jasin" title="Maria Jasin">Maria Jasin</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gero_Miesenb%C3%B6ck" title="Gero Miesenböck">Gero Miesenböck</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hegemann" title="Peter Hegemann">Peter Hegemann</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georg_Nagel" title="Georg Nagel">Georg Nagel</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scott_D._Emr" title="Scott D. Emr">Scott D. Emr</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Negulescu" title="Paul Negulescu">Paul A. Negulescu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_J._Welsh_(biologist)" title="Michael J. Welsh (biologist)">Michael J. Welsh</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Cramer" title="Patrick Cramer">Patrick Cramer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eva_Nogales" title="Eva Nogales">Eva Nogales</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_H._Orkin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stuart H. Orkin">Stuart H. Orkin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swee_Lay_Thein" title="Swee Lay Thein">Swee Lay Thein</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#d3d3d3;">Mathematical<br />science</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shiing-Shen_Chern" title="Shiing-Shen Chern">Shiing-Shen Chern</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Wiles" title="Andrew Wiles">Andrew Wiles</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Mumford" title="David Mumford">David Mumford</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wu_Wenjun" title="Wu Wenjun">Wentsun Wu</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Langlands" title="Robert Langlands">Robert Langlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Taylor_(mathematician)" title="Richard Taylor (mathematician)">Richard Taylor</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Arnold" title="Vladimir Arnold">Vladimir Arnold</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ludvig_Faddeev" title="Ludvig Faddeev">Ludwig Faddeev</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simon_Donaldson" title="Simon Donaldson">Simon Donaldson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clifford_Taubes" title="Clifford Taubes">Clifford Taubes</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Bourgain" title="Jean Bourgain">Jean Bourgain</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demetrios_Christodoulou" title="Demetrios Christodoulou">Demetrios Christodoulou</a> and <a href="/wiki/Richard_S._Hamilton" title="Richard S. Hamilton">Richard S. Hamilton</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maxim_Kontsevich" title="Maxim Kontsevich">Maxim Kontsevich</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Donoho" title="David Donoho">David Donoho</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Lusztig" title="George Lusztig">George Lusztig</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerd_Faltings" title="Gerd Faltings">Gerd Faltings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henryk_Iwaniec" title="Henryk Iwaniec">Henryk Iwaniec</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigel_Hitchin" title="Nigel Hitchin">Nigel Hitchin</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Koll%C3%A1r" title="János Kollár">János Kollár</a> and <a href="/wiki/Claire_Voisin" title="Claire Voisin">Claire Voisin</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luis_Caffarelli" title="Luis Caffarelli">Luis Caffarelli</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michel_Talagrand" title="Michel Talagrand">Michel Talagrand</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Beilinson" title="Alexander Beilinson">Alexander Beilinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Kazhdan" title="David Kazhdan">David Kazhdan</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Michel_Bismut" title="Jean-Michel Bismut">Jean-Michel Bismut</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Cheeger" title="Jeff Cheeger">Jeff Cheeger</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noga_Alon" title="Noga Alon">Noga Alon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ehud_Hrushovski" title="Ehud Hrushovski">Ehud Hrushovski</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Drinfeld" title="Vladimir Drinfeld">Vladimir Drinfeld</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shing-Tung_Yau" title="Shing-Tung Yau">Shing-Tung Yau</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Sarnak" title="Peter Sarnak">Peter Sarnak</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Laureates_of_the_Wolf_Prize_in_Physics309" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background:#d3d3d3;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" title="Template:Wolf Prize in Physics"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" title="Template talk:Wolf Prize in Physics"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wolf Prize in Physics"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Laureates_of_the_Wolf_Prize_in_Physics309" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Laureates of the <a href="/wiki/Wolf_Prize_in_Physics" title="Wolf Prize in Physics">Wolf Prize in Physics</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chien-Shiung_Wu" title="Chien-Shiung Wu">Chien-Shiung Wu</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Uhlenbeck" title="George Uhlenbeck">George Uhlenbeck</a> / <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Occhialini" title="Giuseppe Occhialini">Giuseppe Occhialini</a> (1979)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Fisher" title="Michael Fisher">Michael Fisher</a> / <a href="/wiki/Leo_Kadanoff" title="Leo Kadanoff">Leo Kadanoff</a> / <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_G._Wilson" title="Kenneth G. Wilson">Kenneth G. Wilson</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman_Dyson" title="Freeman Dyson">Freeman Dyson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gerard_%27t_Hooft" title="Gerard 't Hooft">Gerardus 't Hooft</a> / <a href="/wiki/Victor_Weisskopf" title="Victor Weisskopf">Victor Weisskopf</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_M._Lederman" title="Leon M. Lederman">Leon M. Lederman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lewis_Perl" title="Martin Lewis Perl">Martin Lewis Perl</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erwin_Hahn" title="Erwin Hahn">Erwin Hahn</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hirsch_(metallurgist)" title="Peter Hirsch (metallurgist)">Peter Hirsch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Theodore_Maiman" title="Theodore Maiman">Theodore Maiman</a> (1983–84)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Conyers_Herring" title="Conyers Herring">Conyers Herring</a> / <a href="/wiki/Philippe_Nozi%C3%A8res" title="Philippe Nozières">Philippe Nozières</a> (1984–85)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell_Feigenbaum" title="Mitchell Feigenbaum">Mitchell Feigenbaum</a> / <a href="/wiki/Albert_J._Libchaber" title="Albert J. Libchaber">Albert J. Libchaber</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Friedman" title="Herbert Friedman">Herbert Friedman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bruno_Rossi" title="Bruno Rossi">Bruno Rossi</a> / <a href="/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi" title="Riccardo Giacconi">Riccardo Giacconi</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Penrose" title="Roger Penrose">Roger Penrose</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Hawking" title="Stephen Hawking">Stephen Hawking</a> (1988)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Gilles_de_Gennes" title="Pierre-Gilles de Gennes">Pierre-Gilles de Gennes</a> / <a href="/wiki/David_J._Thouless" class="mw-redirect" title="David J. Thouless">David J. 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Taylor Jr.</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot" title="Benoit Mandelbrot">Benoît Mandelbrot</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vitaly_Ginzburg" title="Vitaly Ginzburg">Vitaly Ginzburg</a> / <a href="/wiki/Yoichiro_Nambu" title="Yoichiro Nambu">Yoichiro Nambu</a> (1994–95)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Archibald_Wheeler" title="John Archibald Wheeler">John Wheeler</a> (1996–97)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov" title="Yakir Aharonov">Yakir Aharonov</a> / <a href="/wiki/Michael_Berry_(physicist)" title="Michael Berry (physicist)">Michael Berry</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Shechtman" title="Dan Shechtman">Dan Shechtman</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Raymond_Davis_Jr." title="Raymond Davis Jr.">Raymond Davis Jr.</a> / <a href="/wiki/Masatoshi_Koshiba" title="Masatoshi Koshiba">Masatoshi Koshiba</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Halperin" title="Bertrand Halperin">Bertrand Halperin</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anthony_James_Leggett" title="Anthony James Leggett">Anthony Leggett</a> (2002–03)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Brout" title="Robert Brout">Robert Brout</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Englert" title="François Englert">François Englert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Higgs" title="Peter Higgs">Peter Higgs</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Kleppner" title="Daniel Kleppner">Daniel Kleppner</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Fert" title="Albert Fert">Albert Fert</a> / <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gr%C3%BCnberg" title="Peter Grünberg">Peter Grünberg</a> (2006–07)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#d3d3d3;;width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Clauser" title="John Clauser">John F. Clauser</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alain_Aspect" title="Alain Aspect">Alain Aspect</a> / <a href="/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger" title="Anton Zeilinger">Anton Zeilinger</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximilian_Haider" title="Maximilian Haider">Maximilian Haider</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harald_Rose" title="Harald Rose">Harald Rose</a> / <a href="/wiki/Knut_Urban" title="Knut Urban">Knut Urban</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacob_Bekenstein" title="Jacob Bekenstein">Jacob Bekenstein</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Zoller" title="Peter Zoller">Peter Zoller</a> / <a href="/wiki/Juan_Ignacio_Cirac_Sasturain" class="mw-redirect" title="Juan Ignacio Cirac Sasturain">Juan Ignacio Cirac</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Bjorken" title="James Bjorken">James D. Bjorken</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kirshner" title="Robert Kirshner">Robert P. 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