Awarded the Prize "for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star."

Swiss astrophysicist, born on 12 January 1942 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Dr. Mayor holds MS in Physics from the University of Lausanne(1966)andPhDinAstronomy from the Geneva Observatory(1971).Currently,heisprofessor emeritus at the University of Genevas Department of Astronomy.