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New Worlds in the Cosmos The Discovery of Exoplanets
by Mayor, Michel, Frei, Pierre-Yves, Roukema, Boud
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- ISBN-13: 9780521812078
- ISBN: 0521812070
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Michel Mayor is Director of the Observatory of Geneva, Switzerland. In 1995, together with Didier Queloz, he discovered the first extrasolar planet (51 Peg b) around a main sequence star, and has discovered many more since. His work earned him the prestigious Balzan Prize in 2000, for Instrumentation and Techniques in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Pierre-Yves Frei is a science journalist with the Swiss newspaper, Lausanne Hebdo. In 1998 he was awarded the Media Prize of the Swiss Natural Sciences Academy for science popularisation.Mayor, Michel is the author of 'New Worlds in the Cosmos The Discovery of Exoplanets' with ISBN 9780521812078 and ISBN 0521812070.
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