Saul Perlmutter Biography

Perlmutter and the Supernova Cosmology Project publish cosmological constraints from an initial sample of seven high-redshift Type Ia supernovae.

Reports supernova evidence that cosmic expansion is accelerating.

Perlmutter measures distant supernovae indicating that cosmic expansion is accelerating

Perlmutter publicly presents Supernova Cosmology Project evidence that the expansion of the universe is not being halted by gravity and is instead accelerating.

Perlmutter and collaborators publish the Supernova Cosmology Project analysis of 42 high-redshift supernovae, strengthening evidence for an accelerating universe.

Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.

Perlmutter receives half of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant supernovae.