Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter · Science & Medicine
Discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe via distant supernovae
1959, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States
United States · University of California, Berkeley · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Saul Perlmutter is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe via distant supernovae
Perlmutter, raised in a Jewish family in Philadelphia, led the Supernova Cosmology Project at Berkeley, developing techniques to find and measure distant Type Ia supernovae as cosmic distance markers. His team, together with a rival group, found that these exploding stars are fainter than expected — evidence that the expansion of the universe is speeding up rather than slowing down. The stunning 1998 result, pointing to a mysterious 'dark energy,' earned him a share of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe via distant supernovae
Source: Jinfo.org / Nobel Prize Physics 2011
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