{"id":97195,"date":"2019-10-08T10:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/from-weirdo-phd-stargazer-to-nobel-physics-laureate"},"modified":"2019-10-08T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T17:22:36","slug":"from-weirdo-phd-stargazer-to-nobel-physics-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/from-weirdo-phd-stargazer-to-nobel-physics-laureate","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018weirdo\u2019 PhD stargazer to Nobel Physics laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-weirdo-phd-stargazer-to-nobel-physics-laureate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a student astronomer scanning the skies with homemade instruments a quarter of a century ago, Didier Queloz spent months doubting the data that led him to an inescapable conclusion: he\u2019d just discovered the first planet outside Earth\u2019s solar system.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss scientist had spent much of his PhD research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets, which until one fateful night in October 1995 had previously only existed in the realm of science fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Queloz and his colleague Michel Mayor, who on Tuesday <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-10-nobel-prize-physics-awarded-scientists.html\">were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics<\/a> for their pioneering work, had already overcome a number of obstacles in their galaxy-wide search.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a student astronomer scanning the skies with homemade instruments a quarter of a century ago, Didier Queloz spent months doubting the data that led him to an inescapable conclusion: he\u2019d just discovered the first planet outside Earth\u2019s solar system. The Swiss scientist had spent much of his PhD research refining techniques to detect so-called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}