Saul Perlmutter
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1959 –
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Who is Saul Perlmutter?
Saul Perlmutter is an American astrophysicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Perlmutter shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Brian P. Schmidt and Adam Riess for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
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- Born
- Sep 22, 1959
Champaign-Urbana Metropolitan Statistical Area - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- University of California, Berkeley
- Germantown Friends School
- Employment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- United States of America
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on July 23, 2013
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