Nobel Prize in Physics (2011)

The Nobel Prize In Medicine 2011 :
1). Saul Perlmutter        (US)
2). Brian P. Schmidt     (US)
3). Adam G. Riess       (US)

 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

Saul Perlmutter,   U.S. citizen. Born 1959 in Champaign-Urbana, IL,USA. Ph.D. 1986 from University of California, Berkeley, USA. Head of the Supernova Cosmology Project, Professor of Astrophysics,Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory andUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

www.physics.berkeley.edu/research/faculty/perlmutter.html

                                           

Brian P. Schmidt, U.S. and Australian citizen. Born 1967 in Missoula, MT, USA. Ph.D. 1993 from Harvard 

University, Cambridge, MA, USA. Head of the High-z Supernova Search Team, Distinguished Professor, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Australia.

msowww.anu.edu.au/~brian/

Adam G. Riess, U.S. citizen. Born 1969 in Washington, DC, USA. Ph.D. 1996 from Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA, USA. Professor of Astronomy and Physics, Johns Hopkins University and SpaceTelescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA.

www.stsci.edu/~ariess/