https://doi.org/10.1140/epjh/e2018-80063-1
Oral history interview
Exoplanets – the beginning of a new era in astrophysics★
A protagonist’s perspective
1
Observatoire de Genève, Université de Genève,
51 ch. des Maillettes,
1290
Sauverny, Switzerland
2
Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta,
Loc. Lignan 39,
11020
Nus,
AO, Italy
a e-mail: davide.cenadelli@unimi.it
Received:
27
November
2017
Received in final form:
8
January
2018
Published online: 10
April
2018
This oral history interview touches upon important topics like the dynamics of the discovery, in 1995, of 51 Pegasi b – the first extrasolar planet ever found around a normal star other than the Sun – the development of better and better equipment that made it possible, the importance it had in shaping a new community of scholars dealing with this new field of research, and, more at large, the cultural importance it had in overturning our view of the cosmos.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag 2018