Which year did Mayor and Queloz win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
2017
2019
2005
2010
Answer
Mayor and Queloz won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 for their discovery of an extrasolar planet orbiting the star 51 Pegasi. Their discovery, which was made in 1995, was the first time that an exoplanet had been detected around a Sun-like star.
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