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Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’ Nuño Domínguez
Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering enthusiast fell into a crevasse on an Alpine glacier. One possibility was that he might become trapped between two suffocating walls of ice that would slowly swallow him with every cry for help, with every movement he made to try to escape. In the end, he was lucky: his companions pulled him out, bleeding but alive.Seguir leyendo
14 April 2026 at 15:48

Michel Mayor, Nobel laureate in Physics: ‘People think humanity is eternal, but we are animals and we will become extinct’

14 April 2026 at 15:48

Astronomer Michel Mayor, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, at a hotel in Madrid.

Michel Mayor’s life could have ended in one of the worst deaths imaginable. In 1968, this Swiss mountaineering enthusiast fell into a crevasse on an Alpine glacier. One possibility was that he might become trapped between two suffocating walls of ice that would slowly swallow him with every cry for help, with every movement he made to try to escape. In the end, he was lucky: his companions pulled him out, bleeding but alive.

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Astronomer Michel Mayor, during the interview on April 13.