“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Adam G. Riess is an American astrophysicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011 for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae, a prize he shared with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt. At the time of the award, he was affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.
- Field
- Space Science · Astrophysics
- Lifespan
- 1969–