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Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019 — NobelPrize.org
- 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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"URL": "https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/press-release/",
"type": "webpage",
"title": "Press release: The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019",
"author": [
{
"literal": "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences"
}
],
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2019,
10,
8
]
]
},
"accessed": {
"date-parts": [
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2026,
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]
},
"container-title": "NobelPrize.org"
}
Claims
-
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"
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