Adam Riess
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1969 –
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Who is Adam Riess?
Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist at The Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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- Born
- Dec 16, 1969
Washington, D.C. - Siblings
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- Watchung Hills Regional High School
- Employment
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- United States of America
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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