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2012
Prize category:

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess

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Useful Links / Further Reading

The Nobel Laureates
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA
Brian P. Schmidt, Australian National University,
Weston Creek, Australia
Adam G. Riess, Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, MD, USA
 
Popular science articles
Perlmutter, S. (2003) Supernovae, Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe, Physics Today, vol. 56,no. 4.
Krauss, L.M., Turner, M.S. (2004) A Cosmic Conundrum, Scientific American,
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-cosmic-conundrum
Riess, A.G., Turner, M.S. (2008) The Expanding Universe: From Slowdown to Speedup, Scientific American,
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=expanding-universe-slows-then-speeds
Appell, D. (2008) Dark Forces at Work, Scientific American,
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dark-forces-at-work
 
Interviews
Heard, M. (2001) Interviews with Australian scientists. Dr Brian Schmidt Astronomer. The Australian Academy of Sciences,
www.science.org.au/scientists/interviews/s/bs.html
Appell, D. (2008) Discovering a Dark Universe: A Q&A with Saul Perlmutter, Scientfic American,
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=discovering-a-dark-universe
 
Website
Runaway Universe, www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/
 
Books
Livio, M. (2000) The Accelerating Universe, Wiley, New York.
Krauss, L. (2000) Quintessence, Basic Books, New York.
Goldsmith, D. (2000) The Runaway Universe, Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA.
Kirshner, R.P. (2002) The Extravagant Universe, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
 
Scientific articles
Riess, A., et al. (1998) Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant, Astronomical Journal, 116, 1009-1038.
Perlmutter, S., et al. (1999) Measurment of Ω and Λ from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae, Astrophysical Journal, 517, 565-586.
Perlmutter, S. and Schmidt, B.P. (2003) Measuring Cosmology with Supernovae, Lecture Notes in Physics,
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303428.
 

 

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