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Mayor shared the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize with which other scientist?

  • Didier Queloz

  • Jim Peebles

  • Brian Schmidt

  • Saul Perlmutter

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Mayor shared the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize with Didier Queloz. Mayor was a French astrophysicist, while Queloz is a Swiss astronomer. The prize was awarded to them for their discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet found orbiting a star like the Sun.
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