# Michel Mayor

> Michel Mayor co-discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b, launching the field of exoplanet science. He shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics and developed the precision spectrographs that drive ongoing planet-hunting surveys.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/michel-mayor/](https://selltoscientists.com/researchers/michel-mayor/)*

**Institution:** University of Geneva
**Field:** Astrophysics
**H-index:** 120
**Publications:** 933
**Grants:** 28
**Patents:** 4
**ORCID:** `0000-0002-6510-6628`

## Industry collaborations

- European Southern Observatory
- Geneva Observatory

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