Saul Perlmutter
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 2011for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/22/1959
- place of birth
- Champaign
- Age
- 66 years
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- educated at
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- University of California, Berkeley
- academic major: physics
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- end time: 1986
- Germantown Friends School
- Harvard University
- Greene Street Friends School
- University of California, Berkeley
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- start time: 2007
- National Academy of Sciences
- start time: 2002
- American Astronomical Society
- American Physical Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- field of work
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- astrophysics
- occupation
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- professor
- physicist
- astrophysicist
- researcher
- astronomer
- employer
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- University of California, Berkeley