ASTRONOMER

Michel Mayor

1942 - Today

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Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl majɔʁ]; born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michel Mayor has received more than 306,508 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Michel Mayor is the 35th most popular astronomer (up from 36th in 2019), the 57th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 50th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Astronomer.

Michel Mayor is most famous for being the first astronomer to discover a planet outside of our solar system.

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  • 66.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Michel Mayor ranks 35 out of 644. Before him are Caroline Herschel, Johannes Hevelius, Johann Gottfried Galle, Wilhelm Schickard, Martin Ryle, and Adolphe Quetelet. After him are Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Arthur Eddington, Fred Hoyle, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Jan Oort.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Michel Mayor ranks 38. Before him are José Eduardo dos Santos, Lou Reed, Ian McShane, Mohamed ElBaradei, Giorgio Agamben, and Tobin Bell. After him are Giacinto Facchetti, Jacques Rogge, Bob Hoskins, Jochen Rindt, László Sólyom, and John Irving.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Michel Mayor ranks 57 out of 1,015. Before him are Hans Albert Einstein (1904), Niklaus Wirth (1934), Henry Fuseli (1741), Johann Jakob Balmer (1825), Gabriel Cramer (1704), and Albert I of Germany (1255). After him are Aga Khan IV (1936), Paul Hermann Müller (1899), H. R. Giger (1940), Daniel Bovet (1907), Emil Jannings (1884), and Walter Rudolf Hess (1881).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Switzerland

Among astronomers born in Switzerland, Michel Mayor ranks 1. After him are Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux (1718), Rudolf Wolf (1816), Paul Wild (1925), Didier Queloz (1966), Johann III Bernoulli (1744), Nicolas Fatio de Duillier (1664), Robert Julius Trumpler (1886), and Robert Emden (1862).

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