For a decade, no one believed he found a planet outside Solar System


Professor Didier Queloz speaking to young participants at the Global Young Scientists Summit 2023. - NRF SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): He was the first to discover a planet outside the Solar System but his work was dismissed for a decade before being rightfully recognised with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Delivering the opening lecture of the Global Young Scientists Summit at the Singapore University of Technology and Design on Jan 17, Professor Didier Queloz shared about his scientific journey as an astronomer.

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