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."
The Nobel Prize Winners in Physics 2011
Saul Perlmutter
| NAME | Saul Perlmutter |
| BORN | 1959 (Stockholm) |
| AGE | 51-52 years |
| NATIONALITY | American |
| TWO SISTERS | Shira Perlmutter (a lawyer) and Tova Perlmutter (a nonprofit executive) |
| BETTER HALF | Laura Nelson (an anthropologist) |
| CHILDREN | Noa (one daughter) |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | graduated with an AB in Physics from Harvard in 1981 |
| Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 |
| EXPERTISE | Physics |
| 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 |
| AFFILIATION | Lawrence 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
| NAME | Brian P. Schmidt |
| BORN | February 24, 1967 (Missoula, MT, USA |
| AGE | 44 years |
| NATIONALITY | American & Australian |
| BETTER HALF | Jennifer M. Gordon (Ph.D. student in economics) |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | BS (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
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| EXPERTISE | Physics |
| 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 |
| AFFILIATION | Australian 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
| NAME | Adam G. Riess |
| BORN | December 1969 (Washington D.C.) |
| AGE | 41 years |
| NATIONALITY | American |
| ACADEMIC BACKGROUND | graduated from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992 |
| Ph.D. from the Harvard University in 1996 |
| EXPERTISE | Physics |
| CONTRIBUTION | Accelerating 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 |
| AFFILIATION | Johns 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" |
Credit & Sources: nobelprize.org, wikipedia Thanks to all
