
“for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae”
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist. He shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae. He worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- Field
- Space Science · Astrophysics
- Lifespan
- 1959–