Queloz, Didier
Swiss astronomer at the Geneva Observatory who, as a postgraduate student from 1991 to 1995, worked with Michel Mayor and codiscovered the first extrasolar planet around a star similar to the Sun (see 51 Pegasi). From 1998 to 1999, Queloz was a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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