Michel Mayor, the Nobel laureate in physics, astrophysicist, and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva’s Department of Astronomy held Monday a scientific lecture at the headquarters of the Moroccan Academy in Rabat.
The Nobel laureate discussed the topic “Other worlds in the universe? looking for planets similar to Earth, and perhaps life.”
The lecturer addressed this topic by asking questions about the existence of other life in the universe, and inhabited worlds other than the Earth, saying “These are questions asked by philosophers of antiquity two thousand years ago, and they are still being asked until now.”
Michel Mayor was among the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics for “ground-breaking” discoveries about the universe, along with James Peebles and Didier Queloz.
Mayor and Queloz won for their discovery of a planet around a Sun-like star, while Peebles was honored for work on the evolution of the Universe.
Michel Mayor and Didier were awarded the prize for discovering the star 51 Pegasus, It was the first exoplanet to be discovered orbiting a star like our own, according to BBC news.
Most recently, the 2021 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to the trio Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann, and Giorgio Parisi for their work in understanding climate change.
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