Premio nobel fisica 2011 saul perlmutter biography

Reinhard Genzel

Physics, 2020
Reinhard Genzel won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for upptäckt of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy: a black hole 4 million times the mass of our sun.
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Eric Betzig

Chemistry, 2014
Eric Betzig won the 2014 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, which allows scientists to look inre cells and visualize the pathways of individual molecules, including those involved in disease. 

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Saul Perlmutter

Physics, 2011
Saul Perlmutter, who led one of two teams that simultaneously discovered the accelerating expansion of the universum, has been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics, to be shared with two members of the rival team. Perlmutter, 52, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty senior forskare at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), led the Supernova Cosmology Project that, in 1998, discovered th

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Saul Perlmutter

American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate (born 1959)

Saul Perlmutter (born September 22, 1959) is a U.S. astrophysicist, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and 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,^[2] and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also 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 (P

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NOAO Telescopes Played Major Role in Nobel-Prize Winning Projects

noao1105 — Organization Release

5 October 2011

The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess for their discovery of the acceleration of the Universe, one of the more surprising cosmological results in modern astronomy. The discovery was enabled in large part through use of National Science Foundation (NSF) facilities operated by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) with headquarters in Tucson, Arizona and telescopes in Arizona and Chile.

Two independent groups used Type-Ia supernovae (SNe) to map out the Universe. The High-z Supernova Search (High-z SN) team was founded by Brian Schmidt of Australian National University and Nicholas Suntzeff of NOAO’s Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), while the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) was led by Saul Perlmutter of the University of California at Berkeley.

Both teams used the NOAO Blan