chemistry that led to life has to happen elsewhere. So I am a strong believer that there must be life elsewhere." In December 2019, Queloz took issue with those who are not supportive of helping to limit climate change, stating, “I think this is just irresponsible, because the stars are so far away I think we should not have any serious hope to escape the Earth [...] Also keep in mind that we are a species that has evolved and developed for this planet. We’re not built to survive on any other planet than this one [...] We’d better spend our time and energy trying to fix it.” Highlights and publications Didier Queloz has over 400 scientific publications, attracting over 50,000 citations. His H-index is 115. Awards 2011: BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Basic Sciences (co-winner with Michel Mayor) 2013: Clarivate Citation Laureates 2017: Wolf Prize in Physics 2019: Nobel Prize in Physics 2020: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society Named after him Asteroid 177415 Queloz was named in his honor. References External links "SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)", query for Didier Queloz. Includes 200 abstracts with Queloz listed as an author or co-author a/o 23 February 2017. including the Nobel Lecture on Sunday 8 December 2019 Exoplanets: 51 Pegasis b and all the others … |- 1966 births Living people 20th-century Swiss astronomers Nobel laureates in Physics Swiss Nobel laureates Discoverers of exoplanets Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Jacksonian Professors of Natural Philosophy University of Geneva alumni Academic staff of the University of Geneva Massachusetts Institute of Technology staff Fellows of the Royal Society Wolf Prize in Physics laureates 21st-century Swiss astronomers