Born:Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor, (1942-01-12) 12 January 1942 (age 84), Lausanne, Switzerland
Awards:Prix Jules Janssen (1998), Albert Einstein Medal(2004), Shaw Prize (2005), Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences (2015), Wolf Prize (2017), Nobel Prize in Physics (2019)
Fields:Astrophysics
Thesis:"The kinematical properties of stars in the solar vicinity: possible relation with the galactic spiral structure" (1971)
Education:University of Lausanne (MS), University of Geneva (PhD)
Known for:Discovered first planet orbiting around a normal star, 51 Pegasi