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Saul Perlmutter

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Saul Perlmutter

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American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate

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Saul Perlmutter is an American physicist, astronomer, and professor specializing in astrophysics. Born in Champaign in 1959, he was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. He has served as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also resides. Perlmutter’s doctoral advisor was Richard A. Muller.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Astronomical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Perlmutter has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, and the John Scott Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Third Millennium Thinking
  • Clal in conversation

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1959

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
9

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae

    · 1999 · cited 15,593x

  2. Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding

    · 2000 · cited 11,560x

  3. The Sequence of the Human Genome

    · 2001 · cited 10,201x

  4. Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines

    · 2018 · cited 9,640x

  5. UMAP: Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection

    · 2018 · cited 9,498x

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Quotes

  • “Less than a century ago we had no idea that there was more to the universe than our own Milky Way. the immense size of the universe, the fact that it is expanding, the fact that it is populated with such things as – all this and more had to be discovered before we could do the work that led us to contemplate an .”
  • “Not only does it swallow anything that comes too near it but no one lives to tell the tale ... there are footprints leading in, and no footprints leading out ... If black holes weren’t real, I think the science-fiction writers would have wanted to invent them.”

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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Champaign
Occupation
researcher
Employer
University of California, Berkeley
Languages spoken
English language
Doctoral advisor
Richard A. Muller
Field of work
astrophysics
Image
Nobel Prize 2011-Press Conference KVA-DSC 7744.jpg
Residence
Berkeley
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Saul Perlmutter
date of birth
1959-09-22
member of
American Physical Society
Erdős number
5
name in native language
Saul Perlmutter
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
astrophysics
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Encyclopedic overview

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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