Nobel de Física 2011 es para Perlmutter, Schmidt y Riess por sus descubrimientos de la expansión acelerada del Universo

4 October 2011

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011

with one half to

Saul Perlmutter

The Supernova Cosmology Project

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California,

Berkeley, CA, USA

and the other half jointly to

Brian P. Schmidt

The High-z Supernova Search Team

Australian National University,

Weston Creek, Australia

and

Adam G. Riess

The High-z Supernova Search Team

Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute,

Baltimore, MD, USA

"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"