Adam Riess - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2011
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Adam Riess

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2011
for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
Together with: Brian Schmidt , Saul Perlmutter
Citizenship
United States United States
Languages
English
date of birth
12/16/1969
place of birth
Washington, D.C.
Age
56 years

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member of
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • National Academy of Sciences
occupation
  • astrophysicist
  • astronomer
  • professor
  • physicist
  • researcher
employer
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Space Telescope Science Institute
  • University of California, Berkeley
educated at
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Watchung Hills Regional High School
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Harvard University
field of work
  • astrophysics
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