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Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 — NobelPrize.org

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Key
nobel2019press
Authors
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Issued
2019-10-8
Type
webpage
Container
NobelPrize.org
Raw CSL JSON
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  "title": "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019",
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Claims

  1. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz received half of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering, in October 1995, 51 Pegasi b, a gas giant comparable to Jupiter orbiting a solar-type star. The press release describes it as the first discovery of a planet outside the solar system.
    "In October 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz announced the first discovery of a planet outside our solar system"
    Quote language: en
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