Oct 4, 2011
Astronomers Win 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Posted by Steve Nerlich in categories: physics, space
Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 has been awarded “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae” acknowledging the amazing discovery announced in 1998 that — based on the measured velocities of Type 1a supernovae — the rate of the universe’s expansion is increasing over time. The prize will be shared by three astronomers, now officially ‘outstanding in their field’, Saul Perlmutter of UC Berkeley, Brian P. Schmidt of the Australian National University and Adam G. Riess of Johns Hopkins University. (more…)
