Together with his colleague Michel Mayor, Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet 51 Pegasi b in 1995. Over 4000 more exoplanets have been confirmed up to date. Various instruments have been constructed during the past two decades to search for new stellar companions and to investigate their properties like size, mass and orbit. Finding habitable planets among them will bring us closer to the question if there is any extraterrestrial life out there.
In his talk on "The exoplanet revolution" Didier Queloz will give an insight in his research and the status of the current exoplanetary research.
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