51 Peg b Wins the Nobel.
Congratulations to Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz being jointly awarded the 2019 #NobelPrize in Physics!
51 Pegasi b for the win! https://t.co/0M0xY46IXE
— AGU’s Eos (@AGU_Eos) October 8, 2019
At long last! This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics is partly awarded to the two researchers who discovered the first exoplanet around a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b. How exciting to see the field that I studied in grad school win a Nobel Prize! This informative thread (below) goes into the background of the “first” exoplanet and gives a bit more context.
A hearty congratulations to Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz, for kickstarting the field that I’ve built my career in! Their discovery of 51 Peg b happened in my senior year of high school, and I started working in exoplanets in 2000, when ~20 were known.
A thread:
— Jason Wright (@Astro_Wright) October 8, 2019
—Kimberly Cartier, Staff Writer
One of the best social media genres is sharing the joy of a scientist having their life’s work validated. (My favorite remains Andrei Linde being surprised at his door by a colleague with champagne to tell him they’d found evidence for his theory of cosmic inflation.) This year, let’s enjoy Michel Mayor taking a break from a speaking tour to find messages flooding in about his Nobel Prize for his exoplanet discovery with Didier Queloz.
New laureate Michel Mayor was on a lecture tour in Spain when he heard the news about his #NobelPrize in Physics.
Here Mayor is in the cafeteria of San Sebastian airport, looking at all the messages flooding in! pic.twitter.com/NCYcgZYUXx
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2019
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