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Brian Schmidt

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Also known as Brian P Schmidt, Brian P. Schmidt, B. P. Schmidt, Brian Paul Schmidt, B P Schmidt, B.P. Schmidt

American-born Australian astrophysicist

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Brian P. Schmidt is an American and Australian astrophysicist, astronomer, and university teacher. Born in Missoula, Montana, in 1967, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree and was educated at Harvard University and the University of Arizona, with Robert Kirshner serving as his doctoral advisor. His professional career has included positions at Mount Stromlo Observatory, the Australian National University, and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.

Schmidt’s work focuses on astrophysics, supernovae, and the universe. He has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Gruber Prize in Cosmology, the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, and the Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics. He is a member of the Royal Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the Australian Academy of Science, and the International Astronomical Union.

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Person · Open Library

Works
6

Top works

  • New Heights for Northern Lights
  • Nlp
  • Everyday Blessings
  • Nodders
  • International Relations and the First Great Debate

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Film & TV

Acting · Missoula, Montana, USA

Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS, FAA is the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University. He was previously a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at the University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Known for

  • Great Minds — Self2021
  • Q&A — Self - Panellist2008

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
AT
Active from
1874-12-22
Active to
1939-02-11

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
430
Total plays
10,334

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

    · 2010 · cited 30,937x

  2. A low-cost, high-efficiency solar cell based on dye-sensitized colloidal TiO2 films

    · 1991 · cited 26,520x

  3. IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

    · 2014 · cited 24,464x

  4. Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

    · 2011 · cited 19,388x

  5. General atomic and molecular electronic structure system

    · 1993 · cited 19,126x

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Quotes

  • “… one does not expect a . To my mind, I was genuinely surprised because when you make a discovery of acceleration–well, what causes the acceleration? Well, we give it a name––but we don’t understand it yet. I would not be surprised if we don’t understand it during my lifetime. Without understanding it, I felt it wouldn’t be worthy of a Nobel Prize. The fact that it was given pretty timely–you know, I was only 44 last year–was a bit of surprise.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics2011

    “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”

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Encyclopedic overview

Brian Paul Schmidt (born 24 February 1967) is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Early life and education

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