Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt & Adam G. Riess: The Nobel Prize Winner in Physics 2011

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has declared to honour the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to American scientist Saul Perlmutter (The Supernova Cosmology Project) and the other half jointly to US-Australian citizen Brian P. Schmidt (The High-z Supernova Search Team) and US born Adam G. Riess (The High-z Supernova Search Team) for "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae."
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The Nobel Prize Winners in Physics 2011

Saul Perlmutter

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NAMESaul Perlmutter
BORN1959 (Stockholm)
AGE51-52 years
NATIONALITYAmerican
TWO SISTERSShira Perlmutter (a lawyer) and Tova Perlmutter (a nonprofit executive)
BETTER HALFLaura Nelson (an anthropologist)
CHILDRENNoa (one daughter)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUNDgraduated with an AB in Physics from Harvard in 1981
Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986
EXPERTISEPhysics
AWARDS & HONORS(2002) the Department of Energy's E. O. Lawrence Award
(2003) the California Scientist of the Year Award
(2005) the John Scott Award and the Padua Prize
(2006) the Shaw Prize in Astronomy shared with Adam Riess and Brian P. Schmidt
(2006) the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize
(2007) the Gruber Cosmology Prize shared with Schmidt and the High-Z Team
(2011) the Nobel Prize in Physics
AFFILIATIONLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
PRIZE MOTIVATION"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

Brian P. Schmidt

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NAMEBrian P. Schmidt
BORNFebruary 24, 1967 (Missoula, MT, USA
AGE44 years
NATIONALITYAmerican & Australian
BETTER HALFJennifer M. Gordon (Ph.D. student in economics)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUNDBS (Physics) and BS (Astronomy) from the University of Arizona in 1989
M.A (Astronomy) from Harvard University in 1992
Ph.D. from the University of Harvard in 1993
EXPERTISEPhysics
AWARDS & HONORS(2000) the Australian Government's inaugural Malcolm Mcintosh award for achievement in the Physical Sciences
(2001) The Australian Academy of Sciences Pawsey Medal
2002) the Astronomical Society of India's Vainu Bappu Medal
(2005) an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship
(2006) jointly awarded the US $ 1M Shaw Prize for Astronomy
(2007) the Gruber Prize for Cosmology with his High-z SN Search Team colleagues
(2008) elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the United States National Academy and Foreign Member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
(2011) the Nobel Prize in Physics
AFFILIATIONAustralian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
PRIZE MOTIVATION"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
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Adam G. Riess

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NAMEAdam G. Riess
BORNDecember 1969 (Washington D.C.)
AGE41 years
NATIONALITYAmerican
ACADEMIC BACKGROUNDgraduated from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992
Ph.D. from the Harvard University in 1996
EXPERTISEPhysics
CONTRIBUTIONAccelerating Universe-Dark Energy
AWARDS & HONORS(1999) the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Trumpler Award
(2001) the Bok Prize from Harvard University
(2003) the American Astronomical Society's Helen B. Warner Prize
(2004) the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize for the discovery of cosmic acceleration
(2006) jointly awarded the US $ 1M Shaw Prize for Astronomy
(2007) the Gruber Prize for Cosmology with his High-z SN Search Team colleagues
(2008) the winner of MacArthur "Genius" Grant
(2009) elected to the National Academy of Sciences
(2011) the Nobel Prize in Physics
AFFILIATIONJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
PRIZE MOTIVATION"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

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