The Nobel Prize in Physics rewards the discovery of the first exoplanet

The American James Peebles and the Swiss Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz have been awarded this Tuesday with the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded by the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden.

Peebles has been awarded half of the prize for his theoretical discoveries in cosmology and the other half is shared by Mayor and Queloz for the discovery of the first exoplanet orbiting a star similar to the Sun, a finding that, according to the jury, has changed our conceptions about the Universe.

Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz were pioneers in discovering exoplanets, an area that has become one of the most fascinating fields of astrophysics. In 1995 they discovered the first world outside our solar system that orbited a sun-like star, 51 Pegasi.

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