Brian Schmidt
Professor, Academic
1967 –
Who is Brian Schmidt?
Brian Paul Schmidt AC, FRS is a Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at The Australian National University Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. He currently holds an Australia Research Council Federation Fellowship and was elected to the Royal Society in 2012. Schmidt shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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- Born
- Feb 24, 1967
Missoula - Nationality
- Australia
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of Arizona
- Bartlett High School
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on July 23, 2013
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