In space exploration, Switzerland punches above its weight

2020-08-10 04:25:30

(MENAFN- Swissinfo) All of a sudden, everyone is talking about it: the 2019 Nobel Prize won by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz has reminded the Swiss that the country's astrophysicists are at the forefront of the hunt for exoplanets, as they are in many areas of space exploration and research.

This content was published on June 5, 2020 - 14:45 June 5, 2020 - 14:45 Marc-André Miserez

After some years in the regional print and broadcast media in French Switzerland, in 2000 I joined Radio Swiss International, which then became swissinfo.ch. Since then I have been writing (and producing short videos) on a variety of subjects, from politics to business, and including culture and science.

Skizzomat (Illustration) See in other languages: 9

Deutsch

(de) Im Weltraum gehört die kleine Schweiz zu den Grossen
Español

(es) En el espacio, la pequeña Suiza juega en la liga de los grandes
Português

(pt) Suíça no espaço sideral
中文

(zh) 小瑞士在大太空扮演着'大角色'
Français

(fr) Dans l'espace, la petite Suisse joue dans la cour des grands
عربي

(ar) في الفضاء، سويسرا الصغيرة ضمن نادي الكبار
Pусский

(ru) В космосе Швейцария играет в высшей лиге
日本語

(ja) 宇宙探査小国スイスの大きな貢献
Italiano

(it) Nello spazio, la piccola Svizzera concorre con i grandi

The 1995 discovery made little noise outside scientific circles. But as the years passed, the public began to realise that what was once the realm of science fiction had become a proven reality: the galaxy is teaming not only with stars, but also with planets. The first to have identified one of these planets orbiting a star other than our sun were none other than Switzerland's own Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.

24 years later, the discovery earned Mayor and Queloz the Nobel Prize for physics.

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