Useful Links / Further Reading
| The Nobel Laureates |
| Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Brian P. Schmidt, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia |
| Adam G. Riess, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA |
| Popular science articles |
| Perlmutter, S. (2003) Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, Physics Today, vol. 56,no. 4. |
| Krauss, L.M., Turner, M.S. (2004) A Cosmic Conundrum, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cosmic-conundrum |
| Riess, A.G., Turner, M.S. (2008) The Expanding Universe: From Slowdown to Speedup, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=expanding-universe-slows-then-speeds |
| Appell, D. (2008) Dark Forces at Work, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-forces-at-work |
| Interviews |
| Heard, M. (2001) Interviews with Australian scientists. Dr Brian Schmidt Astronomer. The Australian Academy of Sciences, www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/s/bs.html |
| Appell, D. (2008) Discovering a Dark Universe: A Q&A with Saul Perlmutter, Scientific American, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=discovering-a-dark-universe |
| Website |
| Runaway Universe, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/ |
| Books |
| Livio, M. (2000) The Accelerating Universe, Wiley, New York. |
| Krauss, L. (2000) Quintessence, Basic Books, New York. |
| Goldsmith, D. (2000) The Runaway Universe, Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA. |
| Kirshner, R.P. (2002) The Extravagant Universe, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. |
| Scientific articles |
| Riess, A., et al. (1998) Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant, Astronomical Journal, 116, 1009-1038. |
| Perlmutter, S., et al. (1999) Measurement of Ω and Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae, Astrophysical Journal, 517, 565-586. |
| Perlmutter, S. and Schmidt, B.P. (2003) Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae, Lecture Notes in Physics, http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303428. |
Nobel Prizes and laureates
Six prizes were awarded for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind. The 12 laureates' work and discoveries range from proteins' structures and machine learning to fighting for a world free of nuclear weapons.
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