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Nobel Prize for Accelerating Universe

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Saul Perlmutter2011

Nobel Prize in Physics · Science / Astronomy

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

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Saul Perlmutter

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