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Nobel Prize for Dark Energy Discovery

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

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Adam Guy Riess2011

Nobel Prize in Physics · Science / Astronomy

Riess shares the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the supernova observations that revealed the accelerating expansion associated with dark energy.

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Adam Guy Riess

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