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Didier Queloz

1966 - Today

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Didier Patrick Queloz (French pronunciation: [didje kəlo, kelo]; born 23 February 1966) is a Swiss astronomer. He is the Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a professor at the University of Geneva. Together with Michel Mayor in 1995, he discovered 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Didier Queloz has received more than 270,914 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Didier Queloz is the 236th most popular astronomer (up from 239th in 2019), the 272nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 271st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Astronomer.

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  • 57

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  • 9.58

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  • 3.30

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Didier Queloz ranks 236 out of 531Before him are Agrippa, Henri Debehogne, Eleanor F. Helin, James Glaisher, Adriaan Blaauw, and Rudolph Minkowski. After him are Halton Arp, James Edward Keeler, Johannes Schöner, Wilhelm von Biela, Iosif Shklovsky, and Cleostratus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Didier Queloz ranks 83Before him are Olivier Martinez, Alex Zanardi, Lisa Edelstein, Faure Gnassingbé, Jan Železný, and Michael K. Williams. After him are Miguel Ángel Nadal, James Gunn, Mazinho, Krasimir Balakov, Irène Jacob, and Toby Jones.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Didier Queloz ranks 272 out of 876Before him are Carl Jacob Burckhardt (1891), Antonio Ciseri (1821), Carl Lutz (1895), Luuk de Jong (1990), Johann II Bernoulli (1710), and Walther Ritz (1878). After him are Meyer Guggenheim (1828), Johann Schneider-Ammann (1952), Josef Hügi (1930), Didier Burkhalter (1960), Christoph Blocher (1940), and Robert Maillart (1872).

Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Didier Queloz ranks 4Before him are Michel Mayor (1942), Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), and Rudolf Wolf (1816). After him are Paul Wild (1925), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Robert Emden (1862).