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| | Physics Today December 2000 |
 | | The Swiss-Italian International E. Balzan Prize Foundation in September presented the Balzan Prizes 2000, one of which was awarded to astrophysicist Michel Mayor and is worth CHF 500,000 (approximately $285 000). |
 | | Mayor, director of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, received the Balzan Prize in the field of instrumentation and techniques in astronomy and astrophysics within the category of physics, mathematics, science, and medicine for his discovery of the "first extraterrestrial satellite orbiting around the star 51 Pegasi," reports the foundation. |
 | | Balzan Prizes are awarded each year in different fields within the humanities, social sciences, and art category and the physics, mathematics, science, and medicine category. |
| www.physicstoday.org /pt/vol-53/iss-12/p82b.html (247 words) |
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