Discovery of First Exoplanet Orbiting a Solar-Type Star

by Samuele Lilliu | 21 March 2020

Nobel Prize Laureate Didier Queloz talks about the impact of his 1995 discovery on the theory of planetary systems formation.

Client: University of Cambridge
Budget: £5000
Location: Institute of Astronomy Cambridge
Featuring: Didier Queloz, Mejd Alsari
Producer: Samuele Lilliu
Director of Photography: Samuele Lilliu
Camera operator: Samuele Lilliu, Oggi Tomic
Editor: Samuele Lilliu
Crew: Samuele Lilliu, Oggi Tomic, University of Cambridge team
Featured in: Scientific Video Protocols
DOI: https://scivpro.com/manuscript/10_32386_scivpro_000017/
Transcript: Discovery of First Exoplanet Orbiting a Solar-Type Star
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Overview

Didier Queloz is Professor of Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory (University of Cambridge) and Geneva University. He was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. In the first part of his conversation with Mejd Alsari he discusses the impact of his 1995 discovery on the theory of planetary systems formation.