Saul Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter

Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

“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–