The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided, one half awarded to Saul Perlmutter, the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess ” for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae “.
Saul Perlmutter
Born: 1959, Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: 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”.
Born: 1959, Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: 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”.
For more about Saul Perlmutter: http://www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/perlmutter.html
Brian P. Schmidt
Born: 1967, Missoula, MT, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.
Born: 1967, Missoula, MT, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.
For more about Brian P. Schmidt: http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/index.html
Adam G. Riess
Born: 1969, Washington, DC, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.
Born: 1969, Washington, DC, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA
Prize motivation: “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”.
For more about Adam G. Riess: http://www.stsci.edu/~ariess/
Source: http://www.nobelprize.org