For what specific reason did Mayor win the Nobel Prize?
For inventing a new kind of telescope
For the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star
For identifying a new galaxy
For the development of relativity theory
Answer
Mayor was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2019, together with Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor, for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star. The exoplanet, 51 Pegasi b, was the first exoplanet discovered around a star similar to the Sun.
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