Saul Perlmutter
American astrophysicist and Nobel laureate · United States · Scientists · Born 1959 · age 67
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Something wrong?Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is head of the International Supernova Cosmology Project at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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, Less than a century ago we had no idea that there was more to the universe than our own Milky Way.
Not only does it swallow anything that comes too near it but no one lives to tell the tale ... there are footprints leading in, and no footprints leading out ...
Having that bit of diabolical contrariness is a weird pleasure of being a scientist.
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Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist who is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Franklin W. and Karen Weber Dabby Chair, and is 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, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is 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 (PCAST).
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Ahmed ZewailBoth received Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Takaaki KajitaBoth received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Michel MayorBoth received The Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Carolyn BertozziBoth received Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Jim PeeblesBoth received Gruber Prize in Cosmology
Arthur B. McDonaldBoth received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental PhysicsFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.