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fisico statunitense

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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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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
United States
Active from
1959

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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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human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Champaign
Occupation
researcher
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
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5
name in native language
Saul Perlmutter
maintained by WikiProject
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interested in
astrophysics
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Article · Italiano

Saul Perlmutter (Champaign, 22 settembre 1959) è un fisico statunitense, vincitore del Premio Nobel per la Fisica nel 2011, insieme a Brian P. Schmidt e Adam Riess, per la scoperta riguardante l'accelerazione dell'universo attraverso lo studio delle supernove. Saul Perlmutter è uno dei tre figli di Daniel D. Perlmutter, di famiglia aschenazita, professore emerito di chimica all'Università di Pennsylvania, e di Felice (Feige) D. Perlmutter (nata Davidson), professoressa emerita allaTemple University's School of Social Administration.. Suo nonno materno, Samuel Davidson (1903–1989), ha emigrato in Canada (e in seguito con sua moglie Chaika Newman a New York) dalla Bessarabia nel 1919.

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