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Nobel Prize for Supernova Discovery

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Brian Paul Schmidt2011

Nobel Prize in Physics · Science / Astronomy

Schmidt shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of accelerating cosmic expansion through observations of distant Type Ia supernovae.

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Brian Paul Schmidt

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