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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 who works in the field of astrophysics. Born in Champaign in 1959, he resides in Berkeley and is employed by the University of California, Berkeley. He was educated at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral advisor was Richard A. Muller.

Perlmutter is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also 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. His other awards include the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award and the John Scott Award. He is recognized in the Nobel Laureates, Nobel Physics, and American Academy Arts Sciences collections.

He speaks English and has an Erdős number of 5. Perlmutter is listed as an author with two works: *Third Millennium Thinking* and *Clal in conversation*.

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  • Third Millennium Thinking
  • Clal in conversation

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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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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
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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
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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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