Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich and Director of the Center for Origin and Prevalence of Life. Didier Queloz is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory and Geneva University. In 1995 Professor Queloz has dramatically changed this view with the discovery he made with Michel Mayor of the first giant planet outside the solar system. For his work he received the 2019 Physics Nobel Prize Professor Queloz is at the origin of the exoplanet revolution in astrophysics. Until recently, the Solar System has provided us with the only basis for our knowledge of planets and life in the universe. This seminal discovery has spawned a real revolution in astronomy both in terms of new instrumentation and understanding of planet formation and evolution.