Astronomers win Nobel in Physics! Win for NOTRE DAME!
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011posted by: krueff
Check it OUT!: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2011/press.html
[left to right: Riess, Perlmutter, Schmidt]
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“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
“4 October 2011
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011
with one half to
Saul Perlmutter
The Supernova Cosmology Project
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA
and the other half jointly to
Brian P. Schmidt
The High-z Supernova Search Team
Australian National University,
Weston Creek, Australia
and
Adam G. Riess
The High-z Supernova Search Team
Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, MD, USA”
How does this relate to Notre Dame? One of our very own physics professors worked with these scientists to make their discovery:
(http://newsinfo.nd.edu/assets/7100/Peter_Garnavich_Release.jpg)
Dr. Peter Garnavich helped to establish and worked on High-Z Supernova Search Team with above Brian Schmidt & Adam Riess.
In 2007, Peter shared the 2007 Gruber Prize in Cosmology with Schmidt and Perlmutter: Winning the 2007 Gruber Prize!
