Michel Mayor

Michel Mayor

male, 67 years old
Gliese 581 c, Balzan Prize, 51 Pegasi b, Shaw Prize, High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy…extrasolarplanet
Michel G. E. Mayor (born 12 January 1942) is a Swiss professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Geneva. Together with Didier...

David Charbonneau

male
Harvard University, exoplanet, astronomical transit, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Canadian, extrasolarplanet
David Charbonneau is an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is best known for his work on exoplanets. In 1999, he led...
Didier Queloz

Didier Queloz

male, 43 years old
Astronomer, main sequence, 51 Pegasi, Geneva Observatory, 51 Pegasi b, Roaster…extrasolarplanet
Didier Queloz (born February 23 1966) is a Geneva-based astronomer with a prolific record in finding extrasolar planets. He is understudy to Michel...

Debra Fischer

female
San Francisco State University, Astronomer, extrasolarplanet, dwarf, American, Papers
Debra Fischer is a professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University and University of California, Berkeley. Fischer has co-authored over 80...
Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey Marcy

male, 55 years old
Astronomer, HD209458b, 55 Cancri, Shaw Prize, Gliese 436, 51 Pegasi b…extrasolarplanet
Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be...

Alan Boss

male, 58 years old
Carnegie Institution of Washington, Astronomer, Kepler Mission, Navigator Program, Carnegie Institution, University of California, Santa Barbara…extrasolarplanet
Alan P. Boss (born July 20, 1951, in Lakewood, Ohio) is an American astrophysicist. Educated at the University of South Florida and the University...
R. Paul Butler

R. Paul Butler

male
San Francisco State University, Paul Butler, radial velocity, Henry Draper Medal, Carnegie Institution of Washington, University of Maryland, College Park…extrasolarplanet, extrasolar planets
Paul Butler is an astronomer who searches for extrasolar planets. He has co-discovered two thirds of the approximately 233 extrasolar planets...
Maciej Konacki

Maciej Konacki

male, 37 years old
Astronomer, extrasolarplanet, polish, planet, Torun, Dr. Maciej Konacki
Dr. Maciej Konacki (b. 1972 in ToruĊ„, Poland) is a Polish astronomer, notable for his discovery of HD 188753 Ab, the first planet discovered in a t...
Aleksander Wolszczan

Aleksander Wolszczan

male, 63 years old
Astronomer, pulsar planet, Winner of the Beatrice M. Tinsley Prize, American, polish, Polish Academy of Sciences…extrasolarplanet
Aleksander Wolszczan (pronounced: ; b. 1946 in Szczecinek, Poland) is a Polish astronomer. He was the discoverer of the first extrasolar planets...

Gregory W. Henry

male
Astronomer, transit, extrasolarplanet, American, tennessee state university, HD 209458 b
Gregory W. Henry is an astronomer and research scientist for Tennessee State University. In 1999, Henry led one of two teams that discovered the...