Adam G. Riess

Adam G. Riess, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1969-12-16 in Washington, D.C., USA

Gender: male

Field: American astrophysicist (born 1969)

Biography

Adam Guy Riess is an American astrophysicist and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University and the Space Telescope Science Institute. He is known for his research in using supernovae as cosmological probes. Riess shared both the 2006 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with Saul Perlmutter and Brian P. Schmidt for providing evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011

Awarded on: 2011-10-04

"for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"

Affiliations:

  • Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Space Telescope Science Institute – Baltimore, MD, USA
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