Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Saul Perlmutter

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Prize share: 1/2

Brian P. Schmidt

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Prize share: 1/4

Adam G. Riess

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Prize share: 1/4

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011 was divided, one half awarded to Saul Perlmutter, the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

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