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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
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- Third Millennium Thinking
- Clal in conversation
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Listeners · Last.fm
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Measurements of Ω and Λ from 42 High‐Redshift Supernovae
· 1999 · cited 15,593x
- Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding
· 2000 · cited 11,560x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
- 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
- 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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- Berkeley
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