Brian Schmidt
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Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024.
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As we discover , we suffer from a variety of s, both in our nearby and distant searches.
(quote from p. 276)
With the as an anchor, theory converged on a standard model of the universe, which was still in place in 1998, at the time of our discovery of the .
… one does not expect a . To my mind, I was genuinely surprised because when you make a discovery of acceleration-well, what causes the acceleration?
(quote from p. 21; interviewer Melina Bersten)
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Vera RubinAlso won Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Edward WittenAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Robert HofstadterAlso won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
Adam RiessAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Kenneth G. WilsonAlso won Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
Martin ReesAlso won Gruber Prize in CosmologyAbout this person
Brian Paul Schmidt is an American Australian astrophysicist at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) from January 2016 to January 2024. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He previously held a Federation Fellowship and a Laureate Fellowship from the Australian Research Council, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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