Saul Perlmutter
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Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work studying distant supernovae, which led to the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating. His findings fundamentally changed our understanding of the cosmos by revealing the existence of dark energy, a mysterious force that makes up most of the universe.
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- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
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Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a member of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy, the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, and the 2015 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Since 2021, he has been a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
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