Adam Riess
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Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes.
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is about the gravity of empty space, the gravity of the vacuum. And the vacuum is a concept that we address in and quantum mechanics.
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Edward WittenAlso won Albert Einstein Medal
Brian SchmidtAlso won The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Michel MayorAlso won Albert Einstein Medal
Riccardo GiacconiAlso won Helen B. Warner Prize for Astronomy
Saul PerlmutterAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Andrea M. GhezAlso won Sackler Prize for PhysicsAbout this person
Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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