Discovery of First Exoplanet Orbiting a Solar-Type Star

by Samuele Lilliu | 21 March 2020

Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz talks about the impact of his 1995 discovery on the theory of planetary systems formation.

Overview

Didier Queloz is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) and Geneva University. He was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. In the first part of his conversation with Mejd Alsari he discusses the impact of his 1995 discovery on the theory of planetary systems formation.

1 - Nobel Laurate Didier Queloz talking about the discovery of the first exoplanet
2 - Interview with Didier Queloz wide shot
3 - Illustration of planet accretion
4 - Illustration of Earth
5 - Illustration of Jupiter with moon orbiting around
6 - Didier Queloz talking about exoplanets
7 - Didier Queloz and interviewer
8 - Interviewer at the Institute of Astronomy library asking questions to Didier Queloz