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